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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
WARNING! IT IS A VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW TO USE THIS HEAT GENERATOR (Formerly known as a light bulb) FOR LIGHTING PURPOSES!

I know you meant that ironically, but something like that really happened a couple of decades ago. The product involved was childrens' sleepwear.

Anybody else remember the federal regulation that demanded that all children had to wear "flame retardant" sleepwear?

This meant parents had no choice but to buy "TRIS" treated clothing, if they wanted their kids to have jammies and nighties. (TRIS was a flame retarding chemical.)

And all-cotton pajamas for children was banned! Too "dangerous"!

To get around this idiotic regulation, a few brave small retailers marketed all-cotton pajamas as "underwear" or "playsuits." They had to put labels on them like yours...

"WARNING! IT IS A VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW TO USE THIS CLOTHING AS SLEEPWEAR FOR CHILDREN."

Oh, and the best part was this: TRIS was found to be carcinogenic (just like mercury in those curly lightbulbs is poisonous).

33 posted on 07/15/2011 4:32:57 PM PDT by shhrubbery!
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To: shhrubbery!

Thankfully Japanese tradition saved our kids from all that nonsense.


35 posted on 07/15/2011 4:38:38 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: shhrubbery!
Oh, and the best part was this: TRIS was found to be carcinogenic (just like mercury in those curly lightbulbs is poisonous).

I thought the best part after finding out that TRIS could cause kidney and bladder cancer was when Sears (IIRC), and some other American companies that were sitting on a lot of TRIS sleepwear marketed it in Europe as High End, fancy schmancy sleepwear for kids.

45 posted on 07/15/2011 5:10:30 PM PDT by sockmonkey
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To: shhrubbery!; Ruy Dias de Bivar
During Prhibition, my father would periodically buy compressed blocks of a certain grain, hop, and yeast mixture that carried a prominent warning label:

WARNING! Mixing the contents of this package with 5 gallons of water, and... (rest of the detailed beer recipe followed) ...is a VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW!

115 posted on 07/16/2011 12:39:54 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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To: shhrubbery!
(just like mercury in those curly lightbulbs is poisonous).

Well, not according to some FReepers who want to stop the EPA's court-ordered rules to stop it from being freely spewed from power plants.

134 posted on 07/16/2011 8:12:04 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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