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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Not so much a science denier in this case: my understanding is that the test in this case is incredibly strict and uses such high doses of the chemicals that many things which ordinarily in reasonable circumstances don’t cause any noticeable risk of cancer get caught up in it. So the science is often murky on whether they are actually a risk – but by the wording of the law they still have to be labeled.
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