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 ...

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OLYMPIA, Wash. - Lawmakers are discussing a bill that would restrict the sale of highly concentrated sodium nitrite, a chemical linked to suicide attempts. The proposed legislation, House Bill 1209, ...

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New legislation in Albany would ban retailers like Amazon from selling sodium nitrite, a common meat preservative linked to youth suicides across the country. “It’s basically like the suicide poison ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: This story contains details of self-harm. If you or someone you know is considering suicide or other acts of self-harm, please contact Colorado Crisis Services by calling 1-844-493-8255 ...

A Colorado father, driven by grief, is pushing to make Colorado among the first states in the country to regulate the sale of sodium nitrite. The preservative, used to cure meat, is deadly in its ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At first, Bruce Brown thought the substance in his son’s room was a performance supplement, like the plastic bottles alongside it. He’d never heard of sodium ...

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 ...

Nutritionists Link Everyday Food Preservatives to Higher Cancer and Type 2 Diabetes Risk ...