Basically they put the label on things they have found to have an ingredient that was found to be cancerous or what not and because say an apple has cyanide in it, just because it has it in any amount it would get a label like “this food will kill you.” This is in the face of the reality that you would have to eat a whole bunch of apple seeds to even ingest a lethal amount.
So just because seaweed may have some ingredient or chemical that may cause cancer in huge dosages (like an amount no normal person could consume in an average week or day) means it will contain this warning.
Rachel28Whitcraft
Sometimes the way food is cooked can also make it labeled a carcinogen.
CommandAlternative10
Seaweed has heavy metals. Probably nothing to worry about. Here is a study of Korean dried seaweed consumption and heavy metals.
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If you eat it in California you’ll get cancer. /s
It’s Prop 65 (https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/what-is-prop-65/) which is basically overblown warnings on a lot of food labels because they don’t know anything about exposure and lethal dosages in reality.
Basically they put the label on things they have found to have an ingredient that was found to be cancerous or what not and because say an apple has cyanide in it, just because it has it in any amount it would get a label like “this food will kill you.” This is in the face of the reality that you would have to eat a whole bunch of apple seeds to even ingest a lethal amount.
So just because seaweed may have some ingredient or chemical that may cause cancer in huge dosages (like an amount no normal person could consume in an average week or day) means it will contain this warning.
Sometimes the way food is cooked can also make it labeled a carcinogen.
Seaweed has heavy metals. Probably nothing to worry about. Here is a study of Korean dried seaweed consumption and heavy metals.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24785310/