Bruce Brown is fighting to limit the online sales of sodium nitrite after his son, 17, used it to end his life By. Cara Lynn Shultz. Cara Lynn Shultz. Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

At issue is sodium nitrite. It’s a common meat preservative when used at a strength of 6%. Court records show between 2018 and 2022 several young people bought the chemical compound at 99% ...

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.

The preservative, sodium nitrite, is primarily used - in a diluted form - by meat processing companies. But in recent years, it has also been increasingly used - in its pure form - as a suicide agent.

State health officials first linked sodium nitrite to a death in 2018 and have since counted 31 such fatalities. All but two were classified as suicides, and the numbers have peaked in recent years.

But, products with Sodium Nitrite as an additive and with concentration under ten percent are not impacted by this policy change. “Let’s ban this. Not just at 10 percent.

In June, Canadian police released photos of the sodium nitrite, adding that a joint operation led by 11 police agencies from across Ontario were investigating the case. Law is said to have ...

The bill would ban the sale of high-potency sodium nitrite — more than 10% pure — to Coloradans, except approved commercial businesses, in a bid to slow deaths in a state that regularly has ...

Wang poisons students in 2019. Wang added the sodium nitrite to porridge that was given to the children on March 27, 2019, at Mengmeng Pre-school Education, where she was teaching at the time.