Buck is now using cancer causing materials?

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I've been handling my new 121 (wearing rubber gloves of course :rolleyes:) and trying to figure out what got it flagged. The best conclusion that I can come up with is the phenolic handle. I'm no chemist so I had to look it up and found that phenolic either contains formaldehyde or at the least formaldehyde is used in it's production and formaldehyde is known to be a human carcinogen.

Then again, it might be the ink used in printing the boxes! ;)
 
Its actually the adhesive on the labels thats causing the cancer. :rolleyes: Sorry for that! :D

I am waiting for more info from the guy that knows around here but can say that we are lableing all products now and it is due to prop 65. From what i understand, we only have to lable knives going to California but, its impossible to know where a particular knife may end up so we are labeling them all to be safe.
I hope this helps and again, I apologies for the above attempt at humor.
 
Planetcat said:
Last time I checked, Nova Scotia was in Canada. Why do these always turn into a California bashing thread instead of answering the OP's original concern?
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I too thought about standing up for California, BUT i realized California is is crazy with all the Props, Assembly bills and laws, It's ridiculous .
 
As Bronco said, Prop 65 has had both positive and negative results. One positive is a greater emphasis on finding alternative materials by manufacturers. One negative is that every grocery store in California has a sign by the door quite similar to the sticker in question.

The signs don't keep me from shopping in the stores. There is a difference between a chemical being being present in a building and there being an actual exposure to the chemical. But the law does not differentiate between the two. Personally, I don't know how it could.
 
I guess its just bs then,with all the welding oi've done i guess i've sucked up my share of cancer goodies anyways,maybe i'll just use a sharp 110 to cut the tumor offwhen she rears up.LOL.Sorry Joe,sounds like the move to Idaho was a good plan.
 
Here it is:

Information on California Prop 65

There have been some questions recently regarding the California Proposition 65 (CA Prop 65) warning labels we have begun placing on all of our products. That is understandable and I will try to answer the questions of “what is this and what does it mean?”

First of all, CA Prop 65 is nothing new; it was enacted in California only, in 1986. It is essentially a regulation designed to inform the California consumer as part of California’s “Right to Know”. Under CA Prop 65, a list of various chemicals and substances was created that the state of California determined MIGHT, cause birth defects, cancer, etc if a person ingested, inhaled or absorbed enough of one of the items. So, as part of California’s Right to Know, any/all products that contain one of the items on their list must have that warning label on it so the consumer can see it before he or she buys it. This doesn’t mean all companies apply the label to products even if they should.

The warning appears on products sold across the country even though the label is only a California requirement. That’s because companies like Buck Knives do not always know where their products will be sold so it is easier and less expensive to label all of their products.

Most people have seen this warning more times than they can count and don’t realize it any longer. It is on most gas pumps, including those in states outside of California, virtually all fishing gear (especially lead sinkers), all ammunition and thousands of other products; it is even on all standard garden hoses and some dishes.

Our products are no different now than they were 30 years ago; but, because Buck Knives wants to continue to be a responsible manufacturer and continue to do the right thing, we have decided to include the warning label on our product packaging. Examples of things that have one or more of the items on California’s list are; brass, all brass contains lead and always has; stainless steel contains chromium. Both lead and chromium are on California’s list.
 
The two Buck 110s I received recently both came in boxes dated 2012, both have the warning label, and they both say, "Made In U.S.A.", not U.S.A. Made as indicated in the early comment. Interesting to see how quickly Internet rumors can start from comments like that in post #33. Wouldn't suprise me at all if one day I'm looking at the knife section over on The High Road Forums, and some guy will be telling another how Bucks are now made of Chinese parts, and you can recognize the difference by the "U.S.A. Made" label. As most of you already know, I'm sure, we should be careful about stating things that we haven't verified as fact. Just sayin.
 
Anyone else here remember a comedy sketch some years back (SNL? Not the 9 O'clock News? Benny Hill? Something else?) where someone is seen pimping his company's brand of cookies?

At one point, he makes the bold assertion that "our cookies contain no arsenic! -- says so right here on the label." He then goes on to inquire, "if other cookies don't have arsenic, why don't they come out and say so?"


There is a kind of crazy, embodied in the compulsion to stop things, to prevent stuff, to hold everything still.

We approach a point in regulation where parody, one day, becomes impossible.

 
On another forum, someone speculated that some of the metals in the blade's alloy (e.g., molybdenum) might have put knives on the CA lists... Gotta wonder...

TedP
 
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