Young people are increasingly turning to sodium nitrite and nitrate as a method of suicide after buying the products online, ...

Colorado lawmakers heard powerful testimony Tuesday about a bill aimed at saving lives. The measure would regulate a food preservative that is lethal in its concentrated form. The preservative, sodium ...

At first, Bruce Brown thought the substance in his son’s room was a performance supplement, like the plastic bottles alongside it. He’d never heard of sodium nitrite, so he searched it on the internet ...

"This product is invariably fatal at industrial-strength levels when it's ingested," an attorney arguing on the plaintiffs' behalf said.

A medical examiner report revealed this week that Empire actress Lindsey Pearlman died by suicide in February from sodium nitrite poisoning—and she’s not alone. Her death is part of an alarming trend ...

Mike Taylor has no love for feral hogs. He shoots them regularly on his 30-acre property in Anderson County and sees drivers hit them all the time on U.S. Highway 287 in East Texas. "I know they're a ...

Shreveport, LA - Scientists have shown that very low levels of sodium nitrite appear to protect animals against ischemia and reperfusion injury, and they are hoping that the findings will translate ...

Very high levels of sodium nitrite have been detected in samples of meat sent for analysis as part of investigations into the death of one person in Poland. The National Veterinary Research Institute ...

Among patients who had an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, intravenous sodium nitrite given by paramedics during resuscitation did not significantly improve their chances of being admitted to or ...

Austin, Jan. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The SNS Insider report indicates that, “The Sodium Nitrite Market is projected to reach a valuation of USD 621.8 million by 2032, growing at a compound annual ...

Greater daily exposure to nitrites in food and water may increase the risk for type 2 diabetes, French researchers reported. Compared with those in the lowest tertile of total nitrite exposure (mean 3 ...