# Review quietly launched into health impacts of nitrate

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Podcast: [Checkpoint](https://stenobird.com/podcast/checkpoint-650800)
Published: 2026-06-12T05:15:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2019039049/review-quietly-launched-into-health-impacts-of-nitrate
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## Resource

New Zealand has quietly launched a review into the health impacts of nitrate in drinking water, RNZ has learned. It follows moves by Denmark to drastically lower nitrate limits, based on studies linking it to cancer risk. Keiller MacDuff reports.

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