The liquid consumed by a Texas pedophile before he died inside a courtroom last year was determined to be sodium nitrite, according to the local medical examiner’s office that ruled his death a ...

A convicted paedophile died after downing cloudy liquid in a water bottle during his trial hearing last year.The liquid has been identified as sodium nitrite, according to the local medical ...

A man who mysteriously died just after a jury found him guilty of multiple child sex offenses killed himself with sodium nitrite, a coroner has ruled. Edward Leclair , 57, had just listened to a jury ...

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.

At issue is sodium nitrite. It’s a common meat preservative when used at a strength of 6%. Court records show between 2018 and 2022 several young people bought the chemical compound at 99% ...

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled that a sex offender committed suicide by drinking sodium nitrite last August in a Denton County courtroom shortly after receiving his guilty ...

Per FDA, sodium nitrite cannot exceed 200 ppm and sodium nitrate cannot exceed 500 ppm in the finished product. The parts per million (ppm) signifies the number of nitrates and nitrites in a ...

Potential Health Benefits of Sodium Nitrate. Certain nitrates and nitrites are useful to the body when ingested at normal ...

The preservative, sodium nitrite, is primarily used - in a diluted form - by meat processing companies. But in recent years, it has also been increasingly used - in its pure form - as a suicide agent.

Ahmedabad: Police have confirmed that sodium nitrite poisoning caused the deaths of three men who consumed jeera soda in Nadiad town earlier this month. Kheda SP Rajesh Gadhia said that a forensic ...

Compared with those in the lowest tertile of total nitrite exposure (mean 3.3 mg/day), those exposed to the most nitrites -- a mean 8.6 mg/day -- had a 27% greater risk for type 2 diabetes (HR 1. ...

Colorado legislators back ban on poison used in suicides: “This bill will save lives” Legislative committee advances bill banning sale of high-potency sodium nitrite to Coloradans ...