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by Suppafly 588 days ago
It might be your preference but prop 65 warnings have basically taught an entire generation that safety warnings are meaningless and can be ignored, which is presumably the opposite of the desired effect.
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Here is the list as of 2023 [https://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/proposition-65//p65chem...]

23 pages of small print single lined basic lines.

It includes everything from Aspirin, Aloe Vera leaf extract, Oral contraceptives and estrogens, Alcoholic beverages, Leather dust, Chinese style salted fish, to Benzene, Bracken Fern, and hexavalent chromium.

Bracken fern being particularly widespread, but surprisingly contains a highly potent cancer causing chemical that can also get passed to humans in cows milk. [https://aacrjournals.org/cancerpreventionresearch/article/3/...].

There is likely nowhere in the state that shouldn’t technically have a Prop 65 warning on it.