Rough Rider Warning Label?

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The state of California went nuts long ago, then nuts for labels a couple decades ago. You'll see those things in so many places and in so many venues that if you took them all at face value, you'd hardly know where to walk, drive, or eat.

Actually, they are so common they're totally counterproductive, like a car alarm that never shuts off.

Just another good reason to move out of the state if at all possible.
 
Look at the Prop 65 list, and you will quickly come to the conclusion that virtually everything on earth qualifies for this warning label. I just ignore the omnipresent signs (they are required to be posted at businesses that have anything on the Prop 65 list). Total overkill.
 
Could it be that it's actually the warning label itself that contains the dangerous chemicals, them we'd need a warning label about the warning label, the we'd need a warning label for the warning label about the warning label, then..............
 
California laws about selling materials that contain "Lead". That is where this comes from. Basically anything that might contain trace amounts of lead in it must be labeled as "Potentially Cancer Causing".
 
There have been so many products from China with lead or other contaminants they probably consider the solution to be a standard warning to include with all products.
 
The label could be for anything including the print on the box, the adhesive used on the knife shield, chemicals used to stabilize the bone, or even the steel used in the blade. Forms of chromium, cobalt, nickel, and vanadium are all on the list.

As noted above, the warning is so vague and so overused that it's universally ignored by most reasonable people.
 
lambertiana said:
It's not just lead. Here's the list:

http://oehha.ca.gov/prop65/prop65_list/files/p65single122614.pdf

I bet everyone has at least of few of them in their home. Even wood dust makes the list.
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"Wood Dust" is also on the Federal list of carcinogens.
http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/pubhealth/roc/roc13/

The report identifies agents, substances, mixtures, and exposure circumstances that are known or reasonably anticipated to cause cancer in humans.
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California gets a lot of snide comments about its label requirements. In point of fact, all they are doing is broadcasting information that other government entities make you go look for.
 
knarfeng said:
....California gets a lot of snide comments about its label requirements. In point of fact, all they are doing is broadcasting information that other government entities make you go look for.
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Fair enough. But the effect on people of ubiquitous dire warnings about extreme dangers from everything in the everyday environment is...that people tune out the warnings. It's a variant on the "cry wolf" phenomenon. When the mismatch between the stated dangers and your routine experience is too great, you follow common sense and ignore the warning, whether wisely or not.

This has the predictable follow-on effect of diluting the impact of other, perhaps more immediate and real, warnings coming from the same government.

I don't say that what California is doing is wrong. Instead, it strikes me as deliberately ignoring well-understood aspects of human psychology for the purpose of lawyer-driven bureaucratic butt-covering. Plus kowtowing to pressure from leftist (= anti-business) political groups.

But we're a long way from RR's knives, which are a fun way to try out at low cost patterns that you might wish to use more routinely.
 
Well said...
AreBeeBee said:
Fair enough. But the effect on people of ubiquitous dire warnings about extreme dangers from everything in the everyday environment is...that people tune out the warnings. It's a variant on the "cry wolf" phenomenon. ...
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They don't really know what causes cancer, so the country of California makes them place that sticker with everything now. Saw one on an oxygen bottle...
 
don't really care about the warning label but man, that Appaloosa bone looks sweet, (Hint Hint G.E.C) so I went and bought me one.

Thanks and carry on Gents.
 
Brought to you by the same people that make and sell Pet Treats........That kill pets!
 
AreBeeBee said:
Fair enough. But the effect on people of ubiquitous dire warnings about extreme dangers from everything in the everyday environment is...that people tune out the warnings. It's a variant on the "cry wolf" phenomenon. When the mismatch between the stated dangers and your routine experience is too great, you follow common sense and ignore the warning, whether wisely or not.

This has the predictable follow-on effect of diluting the impact of other, perhaps more immediate and real, warnings coming from the same government.

I don't say that what California is doing is wrong. Instead, it strikes me as deliberately ignoring well-understood aspects of human psychology for the purpose of lawyer-driven bureaucratic butt-covering. Plus kowtowing to pressure from leftist (= anti-business) political groups.

But we're a long way from RR's knives, which are a fun way to try out at low cost patterns that you might wish to use more routinely.
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I agree with this thought. But It makes the Liberal, we want big brother to take care of you (us), feel better about themselves.

Tom
 
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