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Old May 29th 08, 01:09 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
Highland Ham Highland Ham is offline
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Default REMOVING ENAMEL COATING

If a product is dangerous, why shouldn't it have warnings?
Sure, not everyone who uses Strip-X will get cancer. But some of the
components of it are known carcinogens, and a proven hazard. More
important,
we can't know ahead of time who the susceptible folks are.
Naaa, it's the people who think they should be rewarded for stupidity
and basic capitalism that took all that stuff off the market. Some
idiot did something stupid with the product and decided to sue. The
company looked at a long legal fight or settlement and settled.


Maybe. But I doubt it.

More likely, they looked at the *possibility* of such a lawsuit, the
scientific
evidence of the hazards of the ingredients, the limited profit and
declining
sales, and just stopped making the product.

Once a chemical is shown to be dangerous, the manufacturers can't
claim ignorance anymore.

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And (quite rightly)the FDA , EPA and other relevant agencies at Federal
and State level will be taking action .

In Europe action against dangerous substances is nowadays increasingly
taken through legislation by the European Parliament. I welcome that

Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH