The Youth Poisoning Prevention Act, a bipartisan bill to help prevent youth suicide by banning public access to high-concentration sodium nitrite, was passed by the U.S. Senate Friday. If signed into law, the bill would add high-concentration sodium nitrite products, defined as a concentration greater than 10%, to a list of banned products under the Consumer Product Safety Act. Sodium nitrite products have been increasingly used as pharmacological suicide agents, according to a report published in the journal Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., talks to reporters at the Capitol during votes in Washington, Thursday, July 16, 2026. “For years, high-purity sodium nitrite was sold with no guardrails despite mounting evidence that it had become a preferred suicide method.