symptoms of nitrite poisoning?? overdosing on bacon??

[expat smoker]

Yeah, I want to avoid that as well and have just sent my 2nd email to 'Indasia' to get this settled before I poison my family and friends. For now, I'll err on the low side until I get clearification from the company in Holland.  or maybe someone out there has used this product??

thanks again Martin

 

[DanMcG]

I'm not sure that my cure is European......could be Australian standard, but the info sheet states that the nitrite is 0.8%-0.9%,

I'd be pretty confident that their label is what it says it is 0.8-0.9% and that you haven't been poisoning yourself.
Like Martin suggested 15g per kilo will give you a safe 120ppm in your bacon, 20g will give you 160ppm which is above US standards, but still below the UK's 200ppm

 

[expat smoker]

Thanks Dan....

the figures you quote are based on the .8 to .9 % ratio of nitrite?? But what IF it was 10X more nitrite? That would raise the numbers to 1,200 to 1,600 PPM.  That wouldn't be safe.

I'll just wait to hear from the company and/or find another source here in Thailand, which won't be an easy chore.

I'll post if I hear from them.....