The survey results were 67% increased risk in a study of 20,000 people.

So reduce that to 2,000 and the corresponding risk percentage would be 6.7%, right?
birdgirl73 Reviewed by birdgirl73 on . Sodium Nitrate: Cancer in the refrigerator Another cancer causing food chemical exposed. SODIUM NITRATE. What is Sodium Nitrate? It is a meat persevative. It gives meat the red color when in fact the meat is more than likely a putrid grey color. If you look on the back of Sausage, hotdogs, ham, bacon and processed lunch meat labels you will see this carcinogenic chemical listed. When ingested it forms nitrosamines. Its main carcinogenic effect is on the colon and pancreas. Rating: 5