Wednesday, September 21, 2011
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Recently I wrote a column on hot dogs that are advertised as having no synthetic preservatives. The reference is to nitrites that are used to prevent botulism. I pointed out that these “natural” hot dogs actually use celery juice as a preservative because of its high nitrite content. In the column I also objected to a billboard funded by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine that equated eating hot dogs to smoking cigarettes [To read more click on Title.]