What is the reason behind California cancer warning labels? Literally everything seems to be causing cancer. I just bought a few s2s maple boards from a local lumber supplier and each one had a sticker saying it’s known to the State of California to cause cancer. A maple board? There’s no treatment or paint on it. It’s just a milled and poorly planed piece of lumber.
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If you’d like a great, in-depth, well-explained answer that gives tons of background information and discusses the effects of the warning labels (including product reformulations to remove known potential carcinogens), you should check out the episode of 99 Percent Invisible all about Prop 65 warnings:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/warning-this-podcast-contains-chemicals-known-to-the-state-of-california-to-cause-cancer-or-other-reproductive-harm/
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