OT:Wacky Warning Labels

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Many of us routinely make the right noises about products not being intended to cure or even

prevent anything. We have to say that or else...

 

Here is a fun article on warning labels. Enjoy.

 

by James W. HarrisWarning: DO NOT Use Your Toilet Brush for Personal Hygiene!A flushable toilet brush that warns users, "Do not use for personal hygiene" has been identified as the nation's wackiest warning label in an annual contest sponsored by a consumer watchdog group. The Wacky Warning Label Contest, now in its eighth year, is conducted by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch (M-LAW). Its purpose is to publicize how lawsuits, and concern about lawsuits, have led manufacturers and marketers to go to extreme, even loony, efforts to try to avoid frivolous lawsuits.M-LAW argues that lawsuit abuse has "many negative effects on families, job providers and communities. Excessive litigation has robbed consumers of needed products and services and has added a hidden "lawsuit tax" onto countless other products and services."The winners were chosen from literally hundreds of absurd and weird warning labels submitted by consumers to M-Law. All were from products manufactured in the United States. * Second place went to a label on a popular scooter for children that warns: "This product moves when used." * Third place was this warning on a digital thermometer: "Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally." * Fourth place was a label on an electric hand blender promoted for use in "blending, whipping, chopping and dicing," that warns: "Never remove food or other items from the blades while the product is operating.Warning labels are a sign of our lawsuit-plagued times," said Robert B. Dorigo Jones, M-LAW president. "From the moment we raise our head in the morning off pillows that bear those famous 'Do Not Remove' warnings, to when we drop back in bed at night, we are overwhelmed with warnings. Plaintiff's lawyers who file the lawsuits that prompt these warnings argue they are making us safer, but the warnings have become so long that few of us read them anymore -- even the ones we should read. "Hopefully, M-LAW's Wacky Warning Label Contest will motivate everyone to read their warnings again, and maybe even motivate judges to get tougher on frivolous lawsuits."M-LAW describes itself as "a non-partisan, non-profit organization working to increase public awareness of how the litigation explosion is hurting America. M-LAW is dedicated to restoring common sense and personal responsibility to the courts."(Source: M-LAW: http://www.mlaw.org/wwl/index.html )

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