Just bought a Macbook, and the state proposition 65....

After I purchased the MB from amazon, they sent me the order confirmation e-mail, and inside there is something like this, 'California Residents: One or more of the items in your order may be subject to California's Proposition 65 law. '

so now we have the whole proposition 65:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=3234041
The proposition indicates some of the activities and chemicals that might cause cancer.
Well, this is kind of scary. So should we all just stop using computer?.......

 

as someone who's going into medicine, i can tell you that just about everything can be spun as causing some type of cancer. last week i read an article that said social networking websites caused cancer (seriously). just dont eat your laptop, dispose of it properly when it's ready to be trashed, and i guarantee you'll be fine.

 

What's scary is the idiot politicians that manage to get stuff like that on the books. Go into just about any public building in CA and you see similar signs about the place having stuff known to cause cancer in the state of california.

Apparently CA is a dangerous place because things that don't cause cancer anywhere else cause it there. So the issue isn't using your computer, its using it in CA ;-)

 

I hope you are joking; your logic is incorrect.

CA just believe in letting people know about carcinogens.

 

im interested on what material do apple still use in their supposedly "green" machine that triggers that message.

 

I'm fairly certain he was joking.

 

It was more tongue in cheek than joking but yes that's why the smiley face was at the end.

I find having to notify someone that a place or product contains carcinogens when a huge number of such things only do so in quantities it would be difficult or impossible to encounter except on purpose but then ANY amount of that being present even if that quantity would never have any affect and was packaged such that there could be no contect with that substance still requires a warning. I find that both meaningless (because so many places and products will have to warn) and misleading (because there is no danger in the quantities involved).

There is no getting around some heavy metals and other chemicals in modern electronics. But I don't see the point of the warning if I would have to dissemble, extract, and consume substances from more computers than I would likely buy in my lifetime to have any noticable effect on my health.

What's really bad is there are things I'd like to be warned about but because warnings are on so many non dangerous things I don't know which to be concerned about.

 

There are a lot of trace amounts of carcinogens in a lot of products, especially electronics. There still is lead, arsenic, and other harmful chemicals in a lot of electronics. My father is a supervisor workiing for the US military contractor building jets and there is a bunch of chemicals and carcinogens (like mercury) in the manufacturing process.

Some carcinogens are even found in soda. Coca Cola used to have benzoic acid in it. Benzoic acid/benzoate reacts with Vitamin C to form benzine. Benzine is a known, dangerous carcinogen. Lol, Coca Cola Lime was such a bad idea on many levels.

Perhaps California overreacts a bit because these trace amounts might not do anything harmful. It is good to know that there are dangerous chemicals we encounter everyday.

 

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These are in particular useful to families who have infants. Infants safe level of carcinogens is much lower than us fully grown people. These labels hopefully warn parents to not let their infants lick electronics or put them in their mouth, or try to eat them.