Processed meat products that were disallowed entry were hot dogs, bacon, hams and tocino.

They found that processed meats consumption remained unchanged - 182 grams/week compared with 187 grams/week.

The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) said there is strong evidence that eating processed meat (such as salami, bacon and ham) is a cause of bowel cancer, while eating a lot of red meat (beef, lamb or pork) also increases the risk.

Author Prof Tim Key, of Oxford University, said: "Our results strongly suggest people who eat red and processed meat four or more times a week have a higher risk."

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) suggests anyone who eats more than 90g of red or processed meat per day should try to cut down to 70g or less, because of the known link with bowel cancer.

While eating just processed meats, such as ham and salami, wasn't linked to an increased risk of death, eating these meats alongside red meat was linked to a higher risk of death from any cause.

But the problem with this is that people who eat different amounts of processed meat may also have other behaviours that might explain the differences in breast cancer risk, such as being more or less healthy in other ways.

London Consuming processed meat like bacon, ham, sausages, salami, corned beef, beef jerky and canned meat is associated with higher risk of developing breast cancer, warned researchers.

It is known fact that processed meat if consumed daily has ill-effects health.

Dr Gunter Kuhnle, associate professor in nutrition and health at the University of Reading, who was not involved in the study, said it was "questionable" whether people should lower their red and processed meat consumption on the back of this study.

adults and asked them how often they ate red meat, processed meat, poultry, and seafood.

PAMPI said the use of MDM in the country as raw material ingredient for processed meat has contributed to the affordability of the protein source especially in challenging times of high inflationary effects caused by a number of uncontrollable factors.

The prices of processed meat products, like luncheon meat, meat loaf and hotdog, will likely increase by 12 to 17 percent, if the government will increase its tariff on imported processed meat.