California cancer labels

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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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Prop65 was meant to make companies change their products to switch away from dangerous ingredients. It succeeded in that to a degree, many companies reformulated their products to be safer because of it.

Unfortunately it also opened a door to lawyers simply suing vendors for not having a warning label. Many small businesses didn’t have the means to fight those suits and settled and ended up putting warning labels on their products as a result.

If the consequences are losing lots of money, many will err on the site of caution and just put labels on anything.

This overabundance of warning labels have resulted in some genuine threats flying under the radar.

It was a good attempt ruined by greedy lawyers.

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