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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Proposition 65 was a poorly written law that created the labels.
Basically, the labels have become nothing more than an insurance policy so companies don’t get sued. Attorneys would analyze products, and if even completely biologically insignificant amounts of “listed” chemicals were found, they would sue. Or for any number of other dubious connections that they could manage.
So everybody just slaps a sticker on everything, regardless of the risk factor.
This is actually bad for the consumer because it makes no distinction between things that are actually dangerous and things that aren’t.
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