Years ago when visiting CA I saw a sign warning about some chemicals in use. I looked closer and the sign had in tiny type "This sign is printed with materials known to the state of CA to potentially cause cancer." The warning sign also had a warning about itself.

Well I pulled down the list: http://oehha.ca.gov/prop65/prop65_list/files/P65single041511.pdf

Look at was on the list and when it was listed:

Chemical         Type of Toxicity   CAS No.   Date Listed

Marijuana smoke  cancer             ---       June 19, 2009

Wasn't that about the time that some proposition was being voted on to legalize pot?

A common criticism of 65 is that these chemicals seem to magically appear on the list any time a politically connected litigation attorney wants to stir up some cases.

CA must have a different standard than the FDA and other health agencies. Because I don't think that Acrylamide is typically considered a dietary risk. It's my understanding that while it is carcinogenic, the intake would need to be enormous. It's byproduct of cooking starches, so humans have been consuming Acrylamide for a long long while.

That sign would make the meddlers feel good. It won't add to the longevity of Californians. They are still all going to die.

This is the will of the Almighty California Electorate.

... which makes it a classic example of why initiative and referendum - as practiced by California - is a mistake. Anyone with enough money to pay petition signature-gatherers and fund manipulative ads can get an initiative passed in California. Few know what they're really voting on.

good thing we don't eat muffins ;)

Melissa,

Speak for yourself.

My body is known to produce or harbor many toxins, effluvia and historically catastrophic microbes, yet my kids are generally glad to see me. Go figure.

so is that warning on every box of cereal sold in CA. Every loaf of bread?

I dun' understand the logic, or even the lack of does anyone actually realize how many foodstuff that is?

This sounds like one more way to tell people what they should or shouldn't do. Aren't Nitrates and Nitrites also supposed to be carcinogenic? Except, when actual studies are done, it turns out they aren't.
Isn't breathing the air in CA (at least in the LA area) supposed to cause cancer too? May as well enjoy your muffin, since you'll be dying soon anyway.

Look, California "knows" that lead causes cancer. In fact, it does no such thing.

California is the perfect encapsulation of modern American liberalism. Ronald Reagan said it perfectly:

“It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so.”

Didn't Joe Jackson have a song about this?

Next, broccoli will have to be packaged in paper boxes, so that a big cancer warning can be printed on the box. Broccoli contains huge amounts of carcinogens relative to levels which our government laughably considers significant.

Plants Make Natural Pesticides

The bad news is that our plant foods contain carcinogens, natural pesticides that cause cancer in rats. Examples are basil, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, celery, fennel, grapefruit, mushroom, mustard, orange, parsley, parsnips, pepper, pineapple, and raspberry.

These chemicals are present from 70 ppb (parts per billion) to 4 parts per thousand (4,000,000 ppb). These levels are enormously higher than man-made pesticide residues in plant foods.

The good news is that the risk of cancer is negligible at levels we get from plants, french fries, or grilled food.

The purpose of this legislation you ask?

The sole purpose is simply to serve as a reminder that we as a state have gone off a cliff, our state legislators are out of their minds, and that we are basically fucked.

Furthermore, it is a plea by our state and local politicians to LEAVE THE STATE NOW. They have been so effective at legislating entrepreneurship into oblivion and harassing business until they leave that they are widening their campaign to include individuals not directly employed by the State of California. We are becoming a reasonable facsimile of Cuba, the "workers paradise".

I can't wait for Brown's tax increases to fund his pay raises for state employees...

Just wait 'til the State discovers... tobacco!

Swiss, every public building in California -- and I do mean every single one -- contains a sign at the entrance that says "This building contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer". The sign makers must be raking it in.

I bought $16 a lb (a half-lb's worth) at a farmer's market yesterday. The kiddos had it for dinner. I tasted it-it was pretty good, nice chewiness that I like, but almost no salt taste. We bought it on a lark, next week we'll be back to the $2.99 a pack HEB Brand.

The word bacon was supposed to be in my above post somewhere.

So why not change the state from CA to CYA?

"Clearly, cancer causes signage."

LMAO! Amy!!!

The purpose of that sign would be to make taxpayers feel like their tax dollars are doing something, and to convince them that their government is justified taking those tax dollars because nanny government is looking after their health.

A money-saving suggestion for Californians:

Just have one big sign at the state line: "The State of California is known by itself to cause cancer."