Why do motorcycle regulators have prop 65 California cancer warnings?
I just ordered a regulator for my honda cbr600rr and I noticed something weird, some of them from all kinds of different companies have the california prop 65 cancer warning, some don't, some say "may" have chemicals that cause cancer, some say "do" have them? What's really going on? So some companies just not put the label up but it still applies? Are some made differently?
Just about everything that is sold in California has to have a prop 65 cancer warning on it to cover their backsides, legally. Storefronts and offices post them. Grocery stores post them. It's just a legal CYA warning.
If some of the parts are going to be sold in California, even if they weren't made in CA or sold in CA, it's easier for the manufacturer to just slap the notice on every part.
I worked for Lenovo when Prop 65 was passed. The government had a long list of materials and some components have proprietary formulations. None of the materials on the list were intentionally used. The law stated that if the product does not have the warning label and somebody detected it in a test, the company gets sued. The warning label said "may" have the materials. It was far less expensive to add the label than risk someone ever finding any on an unlabeled product. The decision to add the label was a no-brainer. That wasn't the intent of the proposition, but it was written in a way that made it the result. In other words, bad law passed with good intentions. Products and places without the label are taking a risk to save the cost of the label, or, space does not allow a label so it's on a web page somewhere. The actual list is about 860 different materials/chemicals. Enforcement is carried out through civil lawsuits against Proposition 65 violators. Attorneys have collected more than two-thirds of the money paid by businesses to settle Proposition 65 lawsuits since 2000.
The key also is that you can warn that a place or product contains it even if it doesn't.
Bottom line - Warn the consumer or customer - no risk. Don't warn the customer or consumer, if any are detectable, lawyers sue the business like vultures. If not using the label, maybe some customers would prefer a place or product without a label, but that only means they chose not to label.
Because Californians are idiots.
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