Venezuela to probe Chavez cancer poisoning accusation

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17. easily done

I'm going to stay out of this and just wait for the results of the scientific investigation which I am convinced the Venezuelans are quite capable of managing without input from anonymous forum posters.

But, since you asked, and I had already tried, just out of curiosity, to find such scientific articles, here is what came up within seconds, didn't do any other "research", though:

Summary

For 152 days rats were fed a diet containing 0.25% of N-methylbenzylamine and sodium nitrite in concentrations from 0.32% down to 0.01%. Esophageal tumors were observed in all rats of a group when the concentration of sodium nitrite was 0.32%, 0.16% or 0.08%. No esophageal tumors were induced when the concentration was 0.06%, 0,4%, 0.02% or 0.01%. Out of 8 rats receiving a diet mixted with 0.3% of sodium nitrite and drinking water containing 0.6% N-methylbenzylamine one developed a carcinoma of the nose, none developed esophageal tumors. 10 out of 10 mice receiving for 16 days a diet containing 0.1% N-methylbenzylamine and 0.15% NaNO2 developed carcinomas of the forestomach and partly papillomas of the esophagus but only 3 out of 10 mice died from carcinomas of the forestomach when the diet contained 0.1% of the amine and 0.1% NaNO2 (fed for 16. days). The problems involved in ingestion of low dosages of a secondary amine and nitrite are discussed shortly.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00284420?LI=true