EUBA-EFSA-2024-FEEDCO-01: Role of nitrate and nitrite and of processing and storage in the N-nitrosamine formation in certain foods

N-nitrosamines are genotoxic and carcinogenic compounds occurring in food. Their formation has been linked to the presence of nitrates and nitrites in food, mainly in processed food products.The EFSA’s evaluations on nitrates and nitrites as food additives and on N-nitrosamines in food indicated the need for further studies, with known ingoing amounts of nitrates or nitrites added, on the levels of N-nitrosamines formed in different processed meat products and in foods other than processed meat as well as in all products when cooked in different ways (CONTAM Panel, 2023).This call for proposals [...]