Colorado legislators back ban on poison used in suicides: “This bill will save lives” Legislative committee advances bill banning sale of high-potency sodium nitrite to Coloradans ...

“Sodium nitrite is a legal and widely available product offered by retailers to preserve foods, such as meats and fish, and for use in laboratories as a reagent," An Amazon spokesperson told Ars.

Shortly after taking sodium nitrite, Bennett reached out to a relative and said he needed to go to a hospital immediately. Paramedics arrived, but it was too late. He died in the ambulance.

Sodium nitrite is a yellowish-white, odorless powder. You may notice that a small amount of it is in certain foods. But if you consume too much of it, it can be deadly. Unfortunately, in the last ...

ED patients with positive leukocyte esterase and negative nitrite results on urinalysis are sevenfold more likely to have ...

Poppers are a group of chemicals that people breathe in (inhale) to get high. These "party drugs" are typically made with amyl nitrite or a similar substance. People sniff nitrite vapors to get a ...

Backyard cooks looking to grill this summer have another option: hot dogs without "added nitrites." Are they any healthier? Oscar Mayer is touting its new hot dog recipe that uses nitrite derived ...

A family in China suffered from sodium nitrite poisoning after consuming a dish which accidentally contained the chemical ...

As has been reported for years, though (see: this piece from The New York Times, from back in 2011), some experts argue (and still others refute) that the distinction here between cured and ...

Nitrite in the body. In massive doses, nitrite – and nitrate, which changes to nitrite in the body – can lead to a condition called methemoglobinemia. Most common in infants, ...

Meanwhile, those in the middle tertile for total nitrite exposure -- a mean 5.1 mg/day -- did not have a significantly higher type 2 diabetes risk, they wrote in PLOS Medicine.. Essentially the ...

Field tests of bait laced with sodium nitrite — usually used to cure bacon and sausage — are scheduled to begin early this year in West Texas and during the summer in parts of Alabama.