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DURING the years 1961 and 1962 there were in Norway outbreaks of toxic hepatosis in ruminants, giving rather characteristic symptoms and liver lesions1,2. Experiments indicated a possible connexion between the disease and the feeding of meal made from herring preserved with sodium nitrite3. As the hepatotoxic properties of dimethyl-nitrosamine have been established for several species4,5, we decided to investigate the toxicity of this compound to sheep, and its possible occurrence in herring meal.
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SAKSHAUG, J., SÖGNEN, E., HANSEN, M. et al. Dimethylnitrosamine; its Hepatotoxic Effect in Sheep and its Occurrence in Toxic Batches of Herring Meal. Nature 206, 1261–1262 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2061261b0
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