> CONFERENCE REPORT: Processed Meats Linked to Pancreatic Cancer
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> Dr. Nothlings said new questionnaires that will be sent to
> participants in the cohort will ask about how meats are prepared which
> could add insight as to where a possible causative agent lies.
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That statement contains the undoing of the first nitrite battle of the '70s.
Charred meat(aka BBQ) has a high concentration of nitrites, so everyone looked the other way about the entire nitrite problem because quite simply they didn't want to admit that their All American BBQ was killing them.
Leigh