This has been bugging me

[jeffrefrig]

Why is California the only state that they test for cancer causing products? Where I grew up I never saw white snow till Dad got our camp in Northwestern PA, Crawford Co. I never have seen a label stating “this coal-based product has been known to cause cancer in two out of three thousand prison…lab rats in PA.” I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep since I thought of this a few years ago.

 

[Alk8944]

Because it's California. I have always thought they would put that warning on water if they thought they could get away with it.

 

[45Smashemflat]

I’m pretty sure water is the leading cause of drowning…

 

[bullmack]

You can look at Cali's approach two ways. 1) It's way overboard or, 2) you can wonder how micro ball plastics were ever allowed to exist and have now contaminated all of our waters and our bodies.

 

[mtgianni]

My 2 cents on how it might have gone.

Some political appointees needed things to do after agencies were created.
Said agencies were funneled money to determine if people health could be effected in any way by any products. Results were published and companies doing business in CA were required to label things. This resulted in the "warnings".

In MT a few years ago two State run programs for the mentally deficient were shut down after over 8 decades. There were some instances of abuse and an elected official led the charge to prevent this from ever happening again. The programs were dismantled and the multi-million dollar infrastructure left to rot. 90% of the patients were sent to one private care facility. The fact that the said official was a minority owner and that his family members were majority owners had "nothing to do with the situation", per the official. I would assume that CA's testing labs might have a similar situation.

When I was 10, [1964] my neighbor had a large dairy. He commented on some tests that were done wherein baby rats were each injected with a pint of mothers milk. Each of the rats died, thereby proving that mothers milk was bad for children. I think of this when I read studies by do-gooding experts.

 

[chief38]

First of all, CA is populated by people who "march to the beat of a different drum". Secondly, their leadership is a bit "off the wall" as well. I guess CA attracts those type of residents.

Pretty much everything there is banned, in the process of being banned or has cancer warning labels all over it. Unfortunately one of the Country's most beautiful States is occupied by "the others".

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

In California ...........EVERYTHING........causes cancer.

 

[16thVACav]

Jeff -

Here is the main reason you see ridiculous California warnings:

1986 California Proposition 65 - Wikipedia

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Jeff -

Here is the main reason you see ridiculous California warnings:

1986 California Proposition 65 - Wikipedia

Where is the Saint Adriess Fault when you need it to work.

 

[SMSgt]

If everything produced is causing cancer in CA, maybe it's not the products causing the cancers.

 

[TIMETRIPPER]

Maybe California is the cause...

John

 

[sceva]

I doubt very much if CA actually tests anything. Instead they have made up a list of compounds / chemicals that are cancer causing and require the label on any product that has or has been in contact with anything on the list. As for who determines what goes on the list or how it is determined to be a cancer causing agent they likely have a board with members from the Scientific community.

 

[Eric300]

I think the state of California is a cancer unto itself and spreads to the rest of us.

 

[Bald1]

Well…… if smoke causes health problems and cancer. How many people have died because of California wildfires over the decades. This looks like the making of a class action suit. Someone should call Dewey,Cheatum & Howe LLC PC. And what about the governor’s hair care products? That can not be good for the Ozone.

 

[AJ]

Why is California the only state that they test for cancer causing products? Where I grew up I never saw white snow till Dad got our camp in Northwestern PA, Crawford Co. I never have seen a label stating “this coal-based product has been known to cause cancer in two out of three thousand prison…lab rats in PA.” I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep since I thought of this a few years ago.

I don't think Picksburg saw white snow until all the steel mills shut down. When I was stationed there the Marines (locals) talked about the street lights staying on all day due to the soot on the sensors. They would only shut off in the daylight after a heavy rain. We had white snow the spring of 1993, when the big snow storm hit! I have a friend that lives in Meadville, Crawford County, Pa. Have been going to his place since about 1991, pretty there when it snows.......

 

[LVSteve]

You can look at Cali's approach two ways. 1) It's way overboard or, 2) you can wonder how micro ball plastics were ever allowed to exist and have now contaminated all of our waters and our bodies.

In the case of point #2, plain ignorance. Humans have a knack of coming up with technologies that have dangers not evident or acknowledged in their early days.

An example:

My father was a ground radar NCO in the RAF in the early 50s. He worked on Chain Home and saw the first of the BIG microwave radars, the Type 80, when it was still "burn before reading". Years ago he was reminiscing about those days and telling me that on night duty he would sleep in the transmitter room at his Chain Home station. He went on to say they had installed a neon bulb across the twin wire feeder that disappeared into a culvert out towards the antenna. Now, twin feeder isn't shielded, and I'm willing to bet that at the frequencies used by that radar he was subjected to a fair amount of near field radiation. It gets worse.

He then goes on to tell me that the room was lovely and warm in the winter with the four huge tubes banging away in a parallel, push-pull arrangement. I asked if the ventilation fans for the tube cabinets were noisy. He gave me this blank look and replied, "What cabinets?" Yes, there he was sleeping in blissful ignorance mere feet away from high voltage tube devices generating who knows what in the way of X-rays with zero shielding.

When he visited the Type 80, he told me of the weird purple glow from the multi-phase mercury bath rectifier device AKA The Mekon. Now I'd seen pictures of this gadget from the 70s so asked, "Oh, so they opened the lead shielding doors so you could get a quick peek." His reply was a classic. "What lead doors?"

Small wonder I was born with fouled up eyes and developed buck teeth...well, on the one head, anyway.

 

[WuzzFuzz]

It was better years back, when leaving Arizona, and about to cross over into California, the signs read:

FRUITS AND NUTS WERE TO BE CHECKED AT THE PORT OF ENTRY

Maybe that's when things started going to Hades in a hand basket, they stopped checking for those things!!!!!

WuzzFuzz












WuzzFuzz

 

[TXBryan]

Prop. 65 has become so ubiquitous that it has lost all meaning. When virtually everything is "known to the State of California to cause cancer or reproductive harm" the warning no longer informs or alarms.

The state doesn't test anything for these determinations but rather take anecdotal "info" (sometimes blatantly wrong) from "authoritative sources" like the World Health Organization from the UN. It's enough to be "suspected" as California does not require proof.

I think it's all about public policy makers demonstrating how much they truly care about the safety and welfare of the citizens. Or at least the appearance.

Bryan

 

[Retired W4]

Where is the Saint Adriess Fault when you need it to work.

Half the state falling into the Pacific can be hazardous to your health.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Half the state falling into the Pacific can be hazardous to your health.

But look at all the new beaches we would have.