Can I Sell Food Grains and Edible Oil Online? - Vakilsearch The FSSAI has recently declared that the mixing of mustard oil with any other edible oil has been banned with effect from 1 October 2020.

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[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

A couple of months ago a chef on British telly made a recipe with around a cup of mustard oil then the recipe didn't appear on the website and everyone was moaning. I had a quick google and, yep, you can't sell mustard oil for human consumption in the EU. But the thing is this guy has a chain of restaurants so he's clearly feeding it to all his customers regardless.

Is it even dangerous? I mean no one's banning mustard and that also contains the oil.

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It's the erucic acid in mustard oil that's the problem. One study found it caused heart damage in animals and that's shaped US laws so that only a certain level of erucic acid is permitted in foodstuffs. In fact, Canola oil is just rapeseed modified to have less erucic acid.

India has published multiple studies claiming mustard oil is safe. However, being India, nobody is sure they can believe them since they culturally love and economically benefit from mustard oil. Also, it's India.

Cooking oils are an interest of mine.