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 ...

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 ...

A new study has found that higher consumption of industrially processed foods containing certain preservatives is linked to ...

Our tasters tried 18 packaged turkey slices, and although none would beat meat sliced off the bone, some are worthy ...

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 ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state legislators are considering a bill that would prohibit the sale of highly concentrated sodium nitrite, a chemical compound that has been linked to multiple youth ...

Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images Amazon is facing a lawsuit accusing it of selling so-called suicide kits, brought by the families of two teenagers who bought a deadly chemical on the ...

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 ...

Large cohort study links higher exposure to several food preservatives with increased type 2 diabetes incidence, prompting ...

Eating some common food preservatives is linked to a slightly higher risk of eventually developing cancer and diabetes, ...