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 ...

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

The next day, Bennett died by suicide at age 17. He’d ordered a highly concentrated amount of sodium nitrite, a salt used as a preservative on meats, from a sporting goods store out of state.

“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.

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 ...

The preservative sodium nitrite fights harmful bacteria in ham, salami and other processed and cured meats and also lends them their pink coloration. However, under certain conditions in the human ...

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

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.

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 and nitrate exposure was deduced from 24-hour dietary recalls linked with a food composition database. Over the course of the follow-up period, a total of 969 new cases of type 2 diabetes ...

Though the terms nitrates and nitrites are used interchangeably, the meat industry says it's mainly sodium nitrite that companies currently use to cure meats such as hot dogs, cold cuts and bacon.