Cancer cancer everywhere!

[coolotter88 2]

Californians beware, the state of California has declared Gallium Arsenide (ooh scary) to be a carcinogen among other things that will cause your gonads to shrivel and die.

What are your thoughts on the invasion of the nanny state and the ubiquitous cancer warning signs?

http://www.oehha.org/prop65/prop65_list/Newlist.html

[fukuda 351]

Err, what's the problem, exactly?

[Easy Bakes 253]

Nitrous Oxide? The stuff the dentists used to use? the article didnt say what is Galium Arsinide used in, I thought all Arsinic  compounds  caused cancer?

[coolotter88 2]

The saturation of warning labels has caused the people they are supposed to protect to ignore them

The main concern is that labels are being slapped onto generally innocuous things. Gallium arsenide is used in LEDs, solar cells, and many other semiconductor applications. The amounts are negligible (and are you REALLY going to eat that LED? like, Chew it until it's mush and then swallow it)

How do you know which warning labels to follow if all of them just say, it can cause cancer?

[panthersimcity4 162]

Originally posted by: coolotter88 (and are you REALLY going to eat that LED? like, Chew it until it's mush and then swallow it)quote>

"Monsieur Mangetout" probably would have.

The reason they put warning labels on everything known to mankind is to avoid pesky "get rich quick by suing something for a stupid reason" lawsuits.

[coolotter88 2]

nah, he seems to have just swallowed them whole.

[fukuda 351]

Originally posted by: coolotter88

The main concern is that labels are being slapped onto generally innocuous things. Gallium arsenide is used in LEDs, solar cells, and many other semiconductor applications. The amounts are negligible (and are you REALLY going to eat that LED? like, Chew it until it's mush and then swallow it)quote>

It may be uninteresting to USA guys, but the chinese or wherever else guys that pass their entire day manufacturing them and breathing gallium arsenide vapors would like to know it, I guess

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: coolotter88 The saturation of warning labels has caused the people they are supposed to protect to ignore them

The main concern is that labels are being slapped onto generally innocuous things. Gallium arsenide is used in LEDs, solar cells, and many other semiconductor applications. The amounts are negligible (and are you REALLY going to eat that LED? like, Chew it until it's mush and then swallow it)

How do you know which warning labels to follow if all of them just say, it can cause cancer?quote>

True. No need for a warning if the amount of substance present is less than the amount needed to be a hazard.

And if there's no real risk of exposure, the same thing goes. Although it's nice to know what the thing contains. You never know what toddlers will try to put in their mouths. Still, that ought to look more like this:

Contains trace amounts of gallium arsenide.

and less like this:

WARNING: CONTAINS GALLIUM ARSENIDE

[wishfulanthony 3]

Wait a minute... I am in California, but I have not heard anything about Gallium Arsenide! Is this another scare again from toy makers, car manufacturers, or something?

I am very careful about what I buy on the market today, but, this is just the first time I've heard of Gallium Arsenide. Maybe this is another tactic by the Sacramento government to keep consumers further away from buying products, especially toys.

[hamsterTK 93]

For some stuff I can get it. Remember the drama over Pthalates(plasticizers) in teething rings and pacifiers. Now I can understand being concerned if my infant will be putting this stuff in it's mouth.

But this is so stupid...

Do we really need to be reminded why breaking up and eating pieces of an old Game Boy could potentially be dangerous