Prop 65 Product Warnings

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What is Prop 65?

Prop 65 (the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act) requires businesses to provide warnings if their products contain any of over 1,000 chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm.

California's legal system allows lawyers to legally rob you.

Prop 65 doesn't require much to prove you did anything wrong. It lets any private citizen sue you. They just need to find a product without a warning label.

Then they demand money. This is called "private attorney general" enforcement.
In plain English: legalized extortion.

How it Works

1. A law firm sets up a shell company
2. They buy your product online
3. They test it for one of the 1,000+ chemicals
4. They file a lawsuit before you even know there's a problem
5. They offer to settle for $15,000–$50,000
6. You pay because fighting costs $100,000+

Their cost? A few hundred dollars in product testing. Your cost? Sky's the Limit

The Numbers

- Lawyers have collected hundreds of millions in Prop 65 settlements
- Over 90% of the money goes to lawyers and private "bounty hunters"

You Are a Target

If you sell anything with:

- Lead (brass, ceramics, seafood, spices)
- BPA (receipt paper, can linings, plastics)
- Phthalates (vinyl, tool handles, cables)
- Cadmium (jewelry, batteries, ceramics)
- Acrylamide (coffee, fries, chips)
- or hundreds of other products...

Congratulations. You have a bullseye on your back.