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and N-nitrosamides, such as N-nitrosoureas, or inhibitors (Hotchkiss and Vecchio 1985; N-nitrosoguanidines, and N-nitrosopeptides Walker 1990). A database with the nitrosa- (Pegg and Shahidi 2000). mine content in 297 food items from 23 Nitrite is the main additive used as a pre- countries was recently created with the aim servative in cured meats because of its pow- of facilitating the quantification of dietary erful inhibition of the outgrowth of spores of exposure to potential carcinogens and their putrefactive and pathogenic bacteria such as relation to certain types of cancer (Jakszyn Clostridium botulinum. Nitrite has other et al. 2004). additional advantages, including the genera- There was intense discussion in the 1970s tion of nitrosylmyoglobin that gives the about residual nitrite in cured meats and the