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I’m surprised! I believe the ubiquity of Prop 65 warnings have desensitized us to them when they might really matter, if somehow they needed to be posted only when there was a greater need. Like I believe if you just roast a bean, you need to warn customers - like Starbucks:
I will say I’m almost positive a national company has removed something bad from their product/packaging to avoid being forced to put a scary sticker on that would be seen by buyers nationwide. Hopefully it’s not a BPA situation where the replacement material is alleged to be worse than the original one.
Do you mean to say you believe Disney decided to post an optional sign? (Can’t tell exactly but think that’s what you’re getting at.)
For the record, I believe this is not the case. Something like brass railings could necessitate the warning.
Little further reading:
Source article is critical overall: