A Chemist and Biochemist who has published relevant research in several journals like the American Journal of Physiology, Dr. Mark Miller, says that nitrate and nitrite are not nitrosating species, that is, these molecules cannot directly form cancer causing nitrosamines.

在《美国生理学杂志》等期刊上发表过相关研究的化学家和生物化学家马克·米勒博士说，硝酸盐和亚硝酸盐不是亚硝化物质，也就是说，这些分子不能直接形成致癌的亚硝胺。