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Rapeseed Oil

Also known as: rapeseed fat, rapeseed oil and fat, rapeseed vegetable oil

Safe

Modern rapeseed (canola) oil is a low-erucic-acid food oil; routine culinary intake is associated with neutral-to-favorable cardiovascular effects.

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What it is

Edible oil from rapeseed (Brassica napus); modern food-grade rapeseed/canola is low in erucic acid.

Cooking oil; provides monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats.

Why it's flagged

EU caps erucic acid in vegetable oils

What regulators actually say

"Low erucic acid rapeseed oil... is generally recognized as safe when used as an edible vegetable oil... and contains less than 2 percent erucic acid."

21 CFR 184.1555 (FDA) — accessdata.fda.gov

Regulatory status

United States — FDA

Low-erucic-acid rapeseed oil (canola) GRAS under 21 CFR 184.1555

European Union — EFSA

Erucic acid limited under Reg. (EU) 2019/1870

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