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Warning label on a cigarette box: "Smoking Kills". Warning label for a personal water craft. A warning label is a label attached to a product, or contained in a product's instruction manual, warning the user about risks associated with its use, and may include restrictions by the manufacturer or seller on certain uses. [1]
The history of warning labels in the United States began in 1938 when the United States Congress passed a law mandating that food products have a list of ingredients on the label. [ 1 ] In 1966, the Federal government mandated that cigarette packs have a warning on them from the surgeon general .
A group of tell-tales showing lights for "brake fluid", "stop lamp" and "check engine" Graphical tell-talesA tell-tale, sometimes called an idiot light [1] or warning light, is an indicator of malfunction or operation of a system, indicated by a binary (on/off) illuminated light, symbol or text legend.
Alcoholic drinks are a leading cause of cancer and should carry a warning about that risk on their label, the U.S. surgeon general said Friday. Alcohol is a factor in nearly 100,000 newly ...
The country's top doctor wants a new warning added to alcohol that would alert drinkers about links to cancer, but don't expect cigarette-style warning labels any time soon. U.S. Surgeon General ...
For eleven years, the Michigan Law Abuse Watch (M-LAW) has held a Wacky Warning Label contest. Winners of this year's contest, just announced, was an illustrated instruction for a folding baby ...
California Proposition 65 has been criticized for causing "over-warning" [25] due to encouraging "meaningless warnings." [26] [27] [28] There is no penalty for posting an unnecessary warning sign, [29] and to the extent that warnings are vague or overused, they may not communicate much information to the end user. [25]
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