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The problem with prop 65 is that it has a ridiculously low bar for evidence of harm for chemicals to be placed on the list. So the list is full of things that w
by opencl 7y ago
The problem with prop 65 is that it has a ridiculously low bar for evidence of harm for chemicals to be placed on the list. So the list is full of things that were found to cause cancer when fed to rats at ridiculously high doses, and then not found to cause cancer in human studies.
Like acrylamide, which has landed every restaurant a prop 65 warning because it is present in literally all baked goods and also coffee.
- jasonsync 7y agoThat's a more difficult problem to solve. Can we trust these warnings? Do we err on the side of caution? Seems like some humans are more sensitive than others to certain chemicals, and that there's motivation from both sides .. corporate and even political. Imagine a warning label: this product known to cause global warming in a test environment ....