Fer cryin' out loud!

[geo in mi]

So I goes to the local hardware this week to get a fishing license, and to buy something else--thought I would try locally for a change instead of the big box store. Well, I figured it would be made in China, but........... So I get it home and, in addition to the "Manufactured in China for Do It Best Corp., Fort Wayne, IN 46801" there's something in tiny, tiny print...."WARNING: This product contains lead, a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. Do not place your hands in your mouth after handling this product. Do not place this product in your mouth. Wash your hands after touching this product. -------For a metal pistol nozzle for my garden hose. Fer cryin' out loud!

[texican]

If it has a single atom of lead, doesn't California require such a warning?

Live Dangerously! Use the nozzle!

[tyusclan]

I think everything I've bought in the last five years has SOMETHING in it that's "known to the State of California to cause cancer".

Must be a buncha right smart fellers in California to find all that cancer-causing stuff.

[Alice In TX/MO]

I think it's a conspiracy by the companies that make the warning labels. They are making a HUGE profit.

[Harry Chickpea]

I had a similar warning tucked in a box of washers. The State of California is a nanny state. The best thing that can happen to them is to go bankrupt and start over.

[Cassie]

How about a lead warning on something you're supposed to eat?! My mother-in-law left a bottle of Balsamic Vinegar of Modena by FINI and it has a lead warning label on it. Don't plan on using it, it's still sealed and I'll give it back to her next time she comes.

[arabian knight]

And people years ago that had nothing but lead paint in their house lead paint for child's cribs, and so and so forth We also played will toys that OH MY GOODNESS the tires could come off and a person could CHoke on them. But WE made it through just fine. Geesh~!
This nanny government is something else, and getting worse.

[vegascowgirl]

I had the same warning on a heavy plastic garden trowel, though it didn't state lead as the culprit but "chemicals".

I'm surprised Californians are even aloud to breath...Are there warnings on TV in L.A. or some other cities that state "Warning, the air in this city is known to have chemicals and other harmfull particals known in California to cause cancer...breath at your own risk!"

Does that mean if it is known in California to cause cancer that you'll be fine as long as you use it in Nevada? *LOL*

[Beeman]

Back to the hose nozzle.

I bought a couple of lifetime guarantee hose nozzles. One came from Sears and the other from the local farm store. I've had both fail and they were cheerfully replaced with new ones. I'll look in the shop for the manufacturer as one is still put up until needed.

[Cassie]

[QUOTE=arabian knight;3815707]And people years ago that had nothing but lead paint in their house lead paint for child's cribs, and so and so forth We also played will toys that OH MY GOODNESS the tires could come off and a person could CHoke on them. But WE made it through just fine. Geesh~!

Reminds me of that Bucky Covington song, " A Different World". I can reason it that way, but I've also read some history where people did poison themselves drinking from lead cups and using makeup with lead. I don't worry about it, but like the dressing I mentioned, I won't purposely ingest it either.

[fatrat]

The garden hose nozzel probably had some brass in it. Most machined brass is alloy 360 free cutting brass. It has about 3% lead in it to make it more easily machined. However this is not enough lead in a hose nozzel to cause any sort of lead poisoning problem even if you use the nozzel all your life. You just don't drink enough water out of the nozzel to ever cause a problem. In fact you couldn't drink enough water out the garden nozzel to cause you a problem if tried. You can't water your garden enough with the nozzel to cause a problem to any person, plant or the environment. The laws in California are a bit silly. People today are just plain paranoid. You can try and make every thing in life perfectly safe and you are still going to die. People would be wise to forget about the silly California laws and read a Bible for change. Then they would find a warning that could actually save their soul.

[MELOC]

the same is true for many or most faucets. the up side is that most of the lead that can pose a threat is present in the water that actually sits in the faucet. the threat is mitigated if you run the sitting water out of the faucet. what i found surprising is the amount of lead present in many garden hoses. let that run off real good before you drink from it.

[tiogacounty]

Yea, that's the official nanny state warning. I plumb the houses I build, so several times a year I see at least a dozen of these idiotic labels on everything from faucets to fittings. BTW, how many of you have seen the latest attempt by the nannies to keep us safe? The National electric code, and various residential codes, are soon requiring all 120 volt receptacles to be tamper proof models. These have little shutters hidden in them to prevent kids and idiots from poking things into the openings. Lowes has them in stock here already and they will be a code requirement on 1/1/10. (with normal devices being allowed until the supply is exhausted.) The other little joy is arc fault protection. ALL breakers in new construction will have to be arc fault protected. A normal single pole 15 amp breaker is four bucks, an arc fault single runs almost forty! You got to love it, eh?