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A warning has been issued to UK households buying bacon and ham - as s cientists demand action. Scientists are demanding cancer warnings on bacon and ham sold in the UK.

Successive Conservative Party and Labour Party governments are being criticised for doing ‘virtually nothing’ to reduce risk in the decade since a cancer link was found.

Nitrites are chemicals that are added to bacon and ham during processing to cure and preserve them and give them their pink colour, despite gathering scientific evidence that they are harmful.

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“Consumers deserve clear information. Most people don’t realise that the WHO classifies nitrite-cured meats like bacon and ham in the same carcinogenic category as tobac

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