While curing meats with synthetic sodium nitrate is both safe and efficient, new technique would use an amino acid instead of sodium nitrite.

Following 17 public meetings that engaged over 1,500 farmers, landowners, and other Minnesotans in conversations across the state, Governor Mark Dayton and Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner Dave Frederickson last week proposed a new groundwater protection measure. The proposal would help reduce elevated nitrate levels in groundwater and ensure more Minnesota residents have clean, safe, reliable drinking […]