{"id":78395,"date":"2025-08-08T18:44:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78395"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:44:40","slug":"ham-and-bacon-sold-in-tesco-and-ms-found-to-contain-cancer-causing-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/08\/ham-and-bacon-sold-in-tesco-and-ms-found-to-contain-cancer-causing-chemicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Ham and bacon sold in Tesco and M&#038;S found to contain cancer-causing chemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Kapok.img?w=534&h=356&m=6\" alt=\"Eating processed meat, such as ham, bacon and sausages which contain nitrites increases the risk of bowel cancer (PA Archive)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Ham<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/bacon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">bacon<\/a>\u00a0sold in UK\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/supermarkets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">supermarkets<\/a>\u00a0still contain cancer-causing chemicals almost 10 years after the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/world-health-organization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">World Health Organisation (WHO)<\/a>\u00a0warned about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/food-foundation-schools-ham-bowel-cancer-risk-b2759931.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">dangers of using it in processed meats<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/nutrition\/ham-and-bacon-sold-in-tesco-and-m-s-found-to-contain-cancer-causing-chemicals\/ar-AA1Kag4Z?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=1f19f9d48d704416e113ba0a67a22dc6&ei=16\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Ham\u00a0and\u00a0bacon\u00a0sold in UK\u00a0supermarkets\u00a0still contain cancer-causing chemicals almost 10 years after the\u00a0World Health Organisation (WHO)\u00a0warned about the\u00a0dangers of using it in processed meats&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Deli.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78396,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78395\/revisions\/78396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}