OEHHA Proposes Listing Rapeseed Oil Emissions as Carcinogenic Under Prop. 65

California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)
has issued a notice of intent “to list emissions from high-temperature
unrefined rapeseed oil as known to the State to cause cancer under the Safe
Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986” (Prop. 65). The proposal
is based on the 2010 cancer identification by the International Agency for
Research on Cancer (IARC) for “emissions created by frying food in unrefined
rapeseed oil [commonly known as canola oil] heated past its boiling point.”
IARC apparently found that these emissions “cause increased incidence of
malignant tumors in female rats and combined malignant and benign tumors
in both sexes of the mouse.” Comments are requested by December 16, 2013.
See OEHHA News Release, November 15, 2013.