Worth noting that processed meat here[1]:

> ...refers to meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes to enhance flavour or improve preservation.

So this isn't just hot dogs, Spam and the like being targeted. Makes me wonder what cancer rates looked like in times long before refrigeration was commoditized.

TBH, Prop 65 in practice confuses me. For example, I have a jar of pickled red ginger in the fridge that I use for kimbap and such with a Prop 65 warning. Listed ingredients are (in order):

  GINGER
  WATER
  SALT
  ACETIC ACID
  CITRIC ACID
  POTASSIUM SORBATE (PRESERVATIVE)
  FD&C RED NO. 40

When searching the database[2], nothing returns for anything on this disclosed list. I'm clearly missing something here.

[1] https://www.iarc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/pr240_E.pdf

[2] https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/proposition-65-list