Will we really see cancer warnings on bacon sandwiches?

Health Week Overlays

A decade after a WHO agency published a damning report linking processed meats – and the nitrites used to cure them – to cancer, The Grocer reported back in October that UK governments had done “virtually nothing” to reduce exposure to the chemical

Whether it’s a scare story that requires a commonsense approach or cast-iron evidence backed by some of the globe’s most eminent scientists, the debate over the safety of nitrites in bacon looks like it’s finally catching the public’s imagination.

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