Happy 4th of July to all our listeners in the USA! In honor of the holiday, we're doing an episode on hot dogs and other cured meats, specifically regarding the health impacts of nitrates/nitrites!
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References:

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/mar/23/nitrites-ham-bacon-cancer-risk-additives-meat-industry-confidential--report
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2017213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4550318/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0956713506000090
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00543808/document
https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/cancer-carcinogenicity-of-the-consumption-of-red-meat-and-processed-meat
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cancer
https://progressreport.cancer.gov/prevention/nitrate
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2901412/