The team at Chippenham Pit Stop for truckers in Wiltshire is celebrating a mouth- watering milestone.

This week it served up the two 200,000th rasher of nitrite and nitrate preservative-free bacon.

Cooked breakfast lovers, including truckers, can munch their way through a great many rashers in a year.

But the more they eat containing these preservatives, the more likely they are to increase their risk of bowel and other cancers, according to the World Health Organisation.

The team at the Pit Stop, just off Junction Seventeen of the M4 in Wiltshire, who are visited by hundreds of trucker and local community customers every day, decided to serve up only locally sourced bacon completely free of a them

That was two years ago and now the milestone two hundred thousandth rasher has just been pulled from the tray by Pit Stop team member Zach Preston.

Director and health campaigns coordinator for the cafe just off junction 17 on the M4, Lisa Hatherell, a former nurse, said the team had carried out taste tests prior to the switch over.

They found that traditionally cured bacon was just as tasty albeit a little paler than the rashers containing preservatives.

“Our nitrite free rasher milestone most fittingly coincides with the ending of Bowel Cancer UK’s challenge to do thirty minutes of exercise every day during April to raise funds to help combat the disease,” she said.

Many of Pit Stop’s customers took part in the challenge, some making use of the outside exercise gym installed for their truckers and their efforts are expected to have raised around £300 for the charity.

Meanwhile the Pit Stop’s customer care initiatives have been officially recognised in their being three times winners of the Truck Stop of the Year Award made by leading industry publication Truck Stop News.

It has been recognised by the Road Haulage Association as setting the benchmark when it comes to customer care for all their trucker and community customers.