Plus it can lower blood cholesterol and has other health benefits. However, canola is not alone. Other vegetable oils, like corn, soybean and flax can also be used industrially to make lubricants, oils, fuel, soaps, paints, plastics, cosmetics, inks, etc. But because you can do this doesn't make the approved food forms like canola oil or corn oil, for example, that you buy at the store somehow poisonous or harmful. The food forms of all these oils are safe.
Canola oil is even safer since it has the most healthy fatty acid profile of any commonly used oil.
Canola oil shelf life stored at room temperature is roughly one year. The shelf life of other vegetable oils stored at room temperature is similar. After extensive animal and human testing, canola oil has been proven to be absolutely safe to consume and will not produce these or any other diseases or ailments. Canola was developed using traditional plant breeding methods. Dozens of generations of plants may need to be crossed before the ideal plant emerges.