Chemical Listed Effective January 3, 2014 as Known to the State to Cause Cancer: Emissions from High-Temperature Unrefined Rapeseed Oil

Effective January 3, 2014, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is adding emissions from high-temperature unrefined rapeseed oil to the list of chemicals known to the State to cause cancer for purposes of Proposition 65¹. The listing of emissions from high-temperature unrefined rapeseed oil is based on formal identification by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an authoritative body², that this mixture of chemicals causes cancer. The criteria used by OEHHA for the listing of the emissions from high-temperature unrefined rapeseed oil under the “authoritative bodies” mechanism can be found in Title 27, Cal. Code of Regs., section 25306.

The documentation supporting OEHHA’s determination that the criteria for administrative listing have been satisfied for the emissions from high-temperature unrefined rapeseed oil is included in the Notice of Intent to List published in the November 15, 2013 issue of the California Regulatory Notice Register (Register 2013, No. 46-Z). As stated in the Notice of Intent to List, most commercially available rapeseed oil, commonly known as canola oil³, is refined. This listing does not include emissions from refined rapeseed/canola oil. OEHHA received one public comment that supported the listing as described in the Notice of Intent to List.

A complete, updated chemical list will be published elsewhere in this issue of the California Regulatory Notice Register and is available on the OEHHA website. In summary, emissions from high-temperature unrefined rapeseed oil is being listed under Proposition 65 as known to the State to cause cancer, as follows:

Chemical Reference

• Emissions from high-temperature unrefined rapeseed oil

Related Notices

• Notice of Intent to List: Emissions from High-Temperature Unrefined Rapeseed Oil

  Nov 15, 2013

Footnotes and References

¹The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, Health and Safety Code section 25249.5 et seq.

²See Health and Safety Code, section 25249.8(b) and Title 27, Cal. Code of Regs., section 25306.

³U.S. Code of Federal Regulations 21 CFR Part 184 Section 1555. Rapeseed oil, Available at: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/

⁴Listing mechanism: AB – “authoritative bodies” mechanism (Title 27, Cal. Code of Regs. section 25306).