Young people are increasingly turning to sodium nitrite and nitrate as a method of suicide after buying the products online, according to research presented during the 2025 American Academy of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mike Taylor has no love for feral hogs. He shoots them regularly on his 30-acre property in Anderson County and sees drivers hit them all the time on U.S. Highway 287 in East Texas. "I know they're a ...

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 kindergarten teacher in China has been sentenced to death for poisoning dozens of children in an act of revenge against a colleague that left one toddler dead. A court in the central Chinese ...

A monstrous kindergarten teacher in China has been sentenced to death for poisoning 25 children — one of whom died — with breakfast porridge laced with sodium nitrite as revenge after a fight with a ...

A Chinese teacher was sentenced to death after poisoning 25 students with sodium nitrite, killing one of them. Wang Yun, a teacher in the central Chinese province of Henan, was arrested last year and ...

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