“…Indeed, NO2prevents the development of extremely dangerous bacteria, such as clostridium botulinum, which generates the botulin toxin, responsible for muscular paralysis and neuronal complications (Cammack, Joannou, Cui, Martinez, Maraj, Hughes,1999). Furthermore, NO2is extensively used in food production because of its ability to react with meat myoglobin attributing a red colour to the treated meat (Wang, Yan, Su, Zhao, Xia, Chen, 2018). Despite several applications in the meat industry, NO2is reported to be one of the contaminants which can react with biogenic amines giving carcinogenic N-nitroso compounds (EFSA 2017a).…”