Meats cured with nitrites, such as bacon and ham, must feature cancer warnings, advocacy group Coalition Against Nitrites said in an Oct. 24 letter to British Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting.
In an October 2015 statement, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified processed meat as carcinogenic, or cancer-causing, to humans based on “sufficient evidence” showing that its consumption is linked to colorectal cancer. Consuming 50 grams of processed meat on a daily basis raises the risk of such cancer by 18 percent, it said.
