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If you think your food is "clean" and without harmful substances, you've got another think comin'. Take nitrates and nitrites in processed meats, for example. If your ham or bacon is labeled "no nitrates added" look for the ingredient celery powder or celery juice. Celery juice and powder provide as much or more of the carcinogenic chemicals as synthetic nitrates and nitrites. According to studies done by International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an agency of the WHO, "Under acidic conditions in the stomach, nitrite then reacts readily with nitrosatable compounds, especially secondary amines and alkyl amides (present in meat and other foods), to generate N-nitroso compounds. These nitrosating conditions are enhanced following ingestion of additional nitrate, nitrite, or nitrosatable compounds. Some of the N-nitroso compounds that could be formed in humans under these conditions are known carcinogens." The Center for Science in the Public Interest has petitioned the Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) asking that they 'Require Accurate and Non-Misleading Labeling on Meat Processed with Non-Synthetic Nitrates and Nitrites' because IARC's research has shown that so-called "natural" celery powder and juice is just as carcinogenic as the synthetic stuff. 1. No word yet on whether the FSIS is going to comply with this petition. I doubt it, given the current state of politicizing health issues. It just goes to show that learning to read ingredients and learning how certain substances in food is critical to your health. And just because I can pronounce "celery powder" doesn't mean it's good for me. 
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