Preservatives

The French NutriNet-Santé study has published another paper relating disease in this prospective study to the intake of an additive group, in this case preservatives. This is the first prospective epidemiological study investigating the links between a wide range of...

The Grocer magazine reported that Waitrose has launched nitrite-free ham in response to consumer demand and increased sales of its nitrite-free unsmoked back bacon which has shown a 22% increase in sales since last year (The Grocer, 21.04.26). Sales of nitrite cured...

According to The Grocer magazine, sales of nitrite free bacon soared at the end of 2025 and into 2026 with consumer spend on nitrite free products up 21.7% in the 12 weeks ending 25th January. In 2016, the World Health Organisation declared that processed meat,...

It is ten years since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared that processed meat was carcinogenic to humans and on October 24th the UK group ‘Coalition Against Nitrites’ alongside four of the original authors of the 2015 report from WHO and the International...