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Should I be concerned?
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As I understand it, under California State law, EVERYTHING is a possible cause of cancer.
The reproductive bit, well, maybe they're just assuming a bassplayer won't have the opportunity?
The reproductive bit, well, maybe they're just assuming a bassplayer won't have the opportunity?
I was just as surprised as you when I received my last gig bag with the same warning. I'm from Europe as well, and... if there's a warning attached to it like that, you KNOW it's serious.
But apparently, it's a California thing as said. Guess they don't really care that they have customers somewhere else too.
In other words, don't worry about it. It's a kind of catch-all.
But apparently, it's a California thing as said. Guess they don't really care that they have customers somewhere else too.
In other words, don't worry about it. It's a kind of catch-all.
99% if the items I receive these days have some sort of whacky California product liability/cancer warning label or sticker on them.
If you guys can exercise a modicum of control and refrain from ingesting your bass and/or gig bag, you should be fine.
If you guys can exercise a modicum of control and refrain from ingesting your bass and/or gig bag, you should be fine.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Basically the California law requires that said label be placed on any manufactured object that might possibly contain any of a very large list of potentially carcinogenic substances, UNLESS (and here's the kicker) the manufacturer specifically has test results showing that it DOES NOT. As a result, the vast majority of manufacturers, unwilling to eat up all their profits in proving a negative, simply slap the label on and proceed. Naturally, what this means is that these labels are omnipresent, thus universally ignored, thus totally meaningless, just like backup beepers on heavy equipment and car alarms in the city. But legislators and lawyers don't seem to have the ability to foresee unintended consequences, that any reasonably alert chihuahua possesses. I mean, let's face it, they're the ones that couldn't hack 10th grade math.
As others have said, these labels are on countless products that might possibly be sold in the State of California.
The company I work for manufactures HO scale model train cars for model railroad hobbyists, and we put one of these labels on everything we sell to our distributors because a percentage of our product will end up on a store shelf in California.
You'll notice that this warning is also everywhere on the websites of online stores.
I also agree with the statement that this law has essentially backfired because of the fact that this warning is required to be on virtually every single product sold in California, nobody takes it seriously and it just gets ignored.
The company I work for manufactures HO scale model train cars for model railroad hobbyists, and we put one of these labels on everything we sell to our distributors because a percentage of our product will end up on a store shelf in California.
You'll notice that this warning is also everywhere on the websites of online stores.
I also agree with the statement that this law has essentially backfired because of the fact that this warning is required to be on virtually every single product sold in California, nobody takes it seriously and it just gets ignored.
You know, one time I tried to find out whether any data existed showing actual benefits of back-up beepers (I was awakened by one of those damn things this morning) and I spent half a day trawling the internet, and I found exactly ZERO published data showing that accidents or deaths from equipment fitted with them decreased (or, heck, increased either) when they were mandated. I suspect the reality is that they don't do a darn thing. Consider - you're on a construction site with ten pieces of equipment going back and forth all day long. Are you even going to be able to tell which eardrum-shattering beeper goes with which equipment, when all you can hear all day long is backup beepers?
The first time I saw one of those cancer warning labels was on a Full Circle pickup. I couldn't understand the need for such a label and then I learned about California's uptight labelling regulations.
I've worked construction all my life (over 50 years.) The first thing we did on construction sites when those darn beepers were mandated was learn to ignore them. Totally useless in my opinion. As to the cancer warnings , the toilets that I install all have that little slip of paper in them warning of cancer possibilities. So basically they are telling you that pooping on a toilet can cause cancer. Or maybe trying to eat the toilet causes it. Most of them state that "in the state of California------" I'm not in California so I guess I'm safe. Those warnings are as useless as the back-up beepers.
Remove all warnings and let natural selection do it's job please.
Remove all warnings and let natural selection do it's job please.
Being born is the leading cause of death.
I bought 6 sticks of 1" x 3" x 8' pine the other day. Every stick had a cancer warning label on the end. A serious nuisance to remove.
