News about the bacon and processed meat causing cancer has flooded the internet and has caused sadness for most of us. World Health Organization has announced Monday that processed meat and red meats that include everything that we most love contain carcinogens, California is thinking of way to warn consumers by putting a label on bacons in the future.
As reported in CBS Francisco, bacon may have to be sold with warning label following the World Health Organization announcement last Monday. A statement made by the Oakland-based Center for Biological Diversity says, "today's decision should trigger a similar classification in California, requiring these meats sold throughout the state to include a label warning that the products are known to the state of California to cause cancer."
The processed meats and red meats such as bacons, hot dogs, ham, beef, veal, pork, lamb, mutton, horse and goat were labelled by World Health Organization as carcinogenic alongside cigarettes in terms of health risk they deliver. Stephanie Feldstein, Population and Sustainability Director of the Center for Biological Diversity said, "Now, California must follow suit with public health warnings on the labels".
California should require those products sold in the state to carry a warning label in accordance with Proposition 65 according to the environmental group.
"The World Health Organization has put these meats in the same category as cigarettes in terms of the death and danger they deliver," Stephanie said.
Proposition 65 which was passed in 1986 requires California to create a list of all chemicals and substances identified by World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer as carcinogenic to humans, the most dangerous level which processed meats can fall under as reported by Huffington Post.
Furthermore, the warning may come in a form of a label on the meat's packaging, a sign or menu notation where the meat is sold. Or as the law states, "a system of signs, public advertising identifying the system and toll-free information services".
There were no reported comments from the California Attorney General's office on how the World Health Organization's announcement could affect meat labelling in California.
