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by azinman2 1756 days ago
Or the alternative: there are a huge amount of dangerous products in the market that we all shouldn’t be using. Thank you California for bringing this to our consciousness.

Personally I’m very content with these labels and actually avoid products that contain the warning. It’s only because of prop 65 that I recently learned many seaweeds contain high levels of arsenic, lead, and other heavy metals.

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Bruce Ames, biochemist and molecular biologist, inventor of the Ames Test and a prolific and accomplished scientist in the areas of cancer and aging[1], believes that prop 65 is a, "thoroughly silly law, with an enormous cost and no gain in public health"[2]. Interesting and relevant discussion in this PDF[3] about the fire retardants discussed elsewhere in this thread.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Ames

[2] PDF warning https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...

[3] PDF warning https://www.prop65clearinghouse.com/documents/19184