Canola oil is registered with the EPA as a pesticide

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[Health_and_Healing] Canola oil is registered with the EPA as a

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Canola oil is registered with the EPA as a pesticide. Yes, I said a pesticide.

You can view the report on the EPA site a this url address:

http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/biopesticides/factsheets/fs011332t.htm

If you can't reach that site, TRY THIS

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Biopesticide Decision Document

Canola Oil

Reason for Issuance: New Active Ingredient

Date Issued: October 1998

EPA Publication Number:

1. DESCRIPTION OF THE CHEMICAL(S) (BIOCHEMICALS)

Common Name of the Active Ingredient:

Canola Oil

Chemical name of Active Ingredient:

Low Erucic Acid Rapeseed Oil

(Not exceeding 2% erucic acid)

OPP Chemical Codes

011332

Year of Initial Registration:

1998

Pesticide Type:

Biochemical Insecticide

U.S. and Foreign Producers:

W. Neudorff GmbH KG

c/o Walter G. Talarek

1008 Riva Ridge Drive

Great Falls, VA 22066

2. FOOD CLEARANCES/TOLERANCES

40 CFR 180.1194 was amended to read as follows:

Sec. 180.1194 An exemption from the requirements of a tolerance is

established for residues of the biochemical pesticide, canola oil, conforming to

the following definition when used as an insecticide in or on all food

commodities: Canola oil, also known as low erucic rapeseed oil, is the fully

refined, bleached, and deodorized edible oil obtained from certain varieties of

Brassica Napus or B. Campestris of the family Cruciferae. Canola oil contains no

more than 2 percent erucic acid.

3. USE PROFILE

Registered Use: Biochemical Insecticide

At the bottom of the EPA registration is some very bothersome information. For

one, it is registered as a pesticide. In addition, note the date of the

material, ( 1983 ) they are using to claim it is safe. They also state research

data available, meaning what was only presented to them. Further down, it states

that it is classified as a toxic category IV for acute inhalation and primary

eye toxicity, referring to the mixture of 89.5% and .5% Pyrethrins (a pesticide

ingredient extracted from chrysanthemum plants - chrysanthemums are feed to

chickens without any harm.). Am I missing something here? If a so called food is

toxic for humans to inhale or to expose to their eyes, how in the world could it

be healthy to eat? Is it the oil or the Pyrethrins that are providing the toxic

problem to humans. The EPA registration does not make that clear. Soybean oil is

also registered as a pesticide with the EPA. But let me clarify one thing. Any

oil can be used as a pesticide because it literally smothers the insects to

death. Because an oil is registered with the EPA as a pesticide does not mean it

is toxic to humans. However, the soybean EPA registration shows no toxicity to

humans, yet the canola oil EPA registration does.

There is an interesting scientific study done on three cooking oils. Chinese

Rapeseed oil, refined U.S. rapeseed, ( known as canola) and Chinese Peanut Oil.

Now keep in mind that Chinese Rapeseed is not the same as canola oil. However,

this study was also testing refined U.S. rapeseed ( known as canola ). This

study showed that inhaling heated or frying Chinese Rapeseed oil and Chinese

Peanut Oil can increase the risk of lung cancer, but for some reason, the

results for the canola findings were not exactly stated in the study, but more

or less implied to be somewhere in the middle of the other two oils. There's

more, read on.

In this medical research report ( this can also be found on NIH PubMed at this

url )

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve & db=PubMed & list_uids=7\

791233 & dopt=Abstract

for full story go to: http://www.dldewey.com/hydroil.htm

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