diff --git a/Examples/UIExplorer/UIExplorerUnitTests/RCTJSONTests.m b/Examples/UIExplorer/UIExplorerUnitTests/RCTJSONTests.m
index fd8343c08..acacc3a34 100644
--- a/Examples/UIExplorer/UIExplorerUnitTests/RCTJSONTests.m
+++ b/Examples/UIExplorer/UIExplorerUnitTests/RCTJSONTests.m
@@ -78,4 +78,35 @@
   XCTAssertEqualObjects(obj, RCTJSONParse(json, NULL));
 }
 
+- (void)testNotJSONSerializable
+{
+  NSDictionary<NSString *, id> *obj = @{@"foo": [NSDate date]};
+  NSString *json = @"{\"foo\":null}";
+  XCTAssertEqualObjects(json, RCTJSONStringify(obj, NULL));
+}
+
+- (void)testNaN
+{
+  NSDictionary<NSString *, id> *obj = @{@"foo": @(NAN)};
+  NSString *json = @"{\"foo\":0}";
+  XCTAssertEqualObjects(json, RCTJSONStringify(obj, NULL));
+}
+
+- (void)testNotUTF8Convertible
+{
+  //see https://gist.github.com/0xced/56035d2f57254cf518b5
+  NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithBytes:"\xd8\x00" length:2 encoding:NSUTF16StringEncoding];
+  NSDictionary<NSString *, id> *obj = @{@"foo": string};
+  NSString *json = @"{\"foo\":null}";
+  XCTAssertEqualObjects(json, RCTJSONStringify(obj, NULL));
+}
+
+- (void)testErrorPointer
+{
+  NSDictionary<NSString *, id> *obj = @{@"foo": [NSDate date]};
+  NSError *error;
+  XCTAssertNil(RCTJSONStringify(obj, &error));
+  XCTAssertNotNil(error);
+}
+
 @end
diff --git a/React/Base/RCTUtils.h b/React/Base/RCTUtils.h
index 30febd5a3..8f7a4858b 100644
--- a/React/Base/RCTUtils.h
+++ b/React/Base/RCTUtils.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ RCT_EXTERN NSString *__nullable RCTJSONStringify(id __nullable jsonObject, NSErr
 RCT_EXTERN id __nullable RCTJSONParse(NSString *__nullable jsonString, NSError **error);
 RCT_EXTERN id __nullable RCTJSONParseMutable(NSString *__nullable jsonString, NSError **error);
 
-// Strip non JSON-safe values from an object graph
+// Santize a JSON string by stripping invalid objects and/or NaN values
 RCT_EXTERN id RCTJSONClean(id object);
 
 // Get MD5 hash of a string
diff --git a/React/Base/RCTUtils.m b/React/Base/RCTUtils.m
index 7b69da74b..f49e117e2 100644
--- a/React/Base/RCTUtils.m
+++ b/React/Base/RCTUtils.m
@@ -23,8 +23,12 @@
 
 NSString *const RCTErrorUnspecified = @"EUNSPECIFIED";
 
-NSString *__nullable RCTJSONStringify(id __nullable jsonObject, NSError **error)
+static NSString *__nullable _RCTJSONStringifyNoRetry(id __nullable jsonObject, NSError **error)
 {
+  if (!jsonObject) {
+    return nil;
+  }
+
   static SEL JSONKitSelector = NULL;
   static NSSet<Class> *collectionTypes;
   static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
@@ -38,17 +42,48 @@ NSString *__nullable RCTJSONStringify(id __nullable jsonObject, NSError **error)
     }
   });
 
-  // Use JSONKit if available and object is not a fragment
-  if (JSONKitSelector && [collectionTypes containsObject:[jsonObject classForCoder]]) {
-    return ((NSString *(*)(id, SEL, int, NSError **))objc_msgSend)(jsonObject, JSONKitSelector, 0, error);
-  }
+  @try {
 
-  // Use Foundation JSON method
-  NSData *jsonData = jsonObject ? [NSJSONSerialization
-                                   dataWithJSONObject:jsonObject
-                                   options:(NSJSONWritingOptions)NSJSONReadingAllowFragments
-                                   error:error] : nil;
-  return jsonData ? [[NSString alloc] initWithData:jsonData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] : nil;
+    // Use JSONKit if available and object is not a fragment
+    if (JSONKitSelector && [collectionTypes containsObject:[jsonObject classForCoder]]) {
+      return ((NSString *(*)(id, SEL, int, NSError **))objc_msgSend)(jsonObject, JSONKitSelector, 0, error);
+    }
+
+    // Use Foundation JSON method
+    NSData *jsonData = [NSJSONSerialization
+                        dataWithJSONObject:jsonObject options:(NSJSONWritingOptions)NSJSONReadingAllowFragments
+                        error:error];
+
+    return jsonData ? [[NSString alloc] initWithData:jsonData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] : nil;
+  }
+  @catch (NSException *exception) {
+
+    // Convert exception to error
+    if (error) {
+      *error = [NSError errorWithDomain:RCTErrorDomain code:0 userInfo:@{
+        NSLocalizedDescriptionKey: exception.description ?: @""
+      }];
+    }
+    return nil;
+  }
+}
+
+NSString *__nullable RCTJSONStringify(id __nullable jsonObject, NSError **error)
+{
+  if (error) {
+    return _RCTJSONStringifyNoRetry(jsonObject, error);
+  } else {
+    NSError *localError;
+    NSString *json = _RCTJSONStringifyNoRetry(jsonObject, &localError);
+    if (localError) {
+      RCTLogError(@"RCTJSONStringify() encountered the following error: %@",
+                  localError.localizedDescription);
+      // Sanitize the data, then retry. This is slow, but it prevents uncaught
+      // data issues from crashing in production
+      return _RCTJSONStringifyNoRetry(RCTJSONClean(jsonObject), NULL);
+    }
+    return json;
+  }
 }
 
 static id __nullable _RCTJSONParse(NSString *__nullable jsonString, BOOL mutable, NSError **error)
@@ -134,6 +169,14 @@ id RCTJSONClean(id object)
   });
 
   if ([validLeafTypes containsObject:[object classForCoder]]) {
+    if ([object isKindOfClass:[NSNumber class]]) {
+      return @(RCTZeroIfNaN([object doubleValue]));
+    }
+    if ([object isKindOfClass:[NSString class]]) {
+      if ([object UTF8String] == NULL) {
+        return (id)kCFNull;
+      }
+    }
     return object;
   }
 
diff --git a/React/Modules/RCTRedBox.m b/React/Modules/RCTRedBox.m
index 6379c1164..b8717b150 100644
--- a/React/Modules/RCTRedBox.m
+++ b/React/Modules/RCTRedBox.m
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ RCT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED(- (instancetype)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aDecoder)
 
 - (void)openStackFrameInEditor:(NSDictionary *)stackFrame
 {
-  NSData *stackFrameJSON = [RCTJSONStringify(stackFrame, nil) dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
+  NSData *stackFrameJSON = [RCTJSONStringify(stackFrame, NULL) dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
   NSString *postLength = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%tu", stackFrameJSON.length];
   NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest new];
   request.URL = [RCTConvert NSURL:@"http://localhost:8081/open-stack-frame"];
diff --git a/React/Profiler/RCTProfile.m b/React/Profiler/RCTProfile.m
index 8bcf2a56e..42cf74c63 100644
--- a/React/Profiler/RCTProfile.m
+++ b/React/Profiler/RCTProfile.m
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ static systrace_arg_t *RCTProfileSystraceArgsFromNSDictionary(NSDictionary *args
     systrace_args[i].key = keyc;
     systrace_args[i].key_len = (int)strlen(keyc);
 
-    const char *valuec = RCTJSONStringify(value, nil).UTF8String;
+    const char *valuec = RCTJSONStringify(value, NULL).UTF8String;
     systrace_args[i].value = valuec;
     systrace_args[i].value_len = (int)strlen(valuec);
     i++;