My wife ordered a two-pound bag of black licorice taffy from Vermont to send to her brother in San Diego. A few minutes after placing the order, she received a phone call from a clerk informing her they couldn’t ship her order because of California’s Proposition 65.
Say what?
Officially known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, it’s supposed to protect Californians from chemicals known to cause cancer and birth defects. The official website has 22 pages of so-called harmful chemicals.
Well, I wanted to know what chemical this candy contained making it so dangerous the third largest state in the nation has banned it. So I called the number listed on the website.
After nearly half-an-hour of research by the person on the other end of the line, she said she couldn’t tell me which chemicals were in the candy or why it’s banned. I could tell she was a baffled as me.
No wonder California’s economy is in the tank.
My wife ended up ordering the candy anyway. She plans to mail it to her brother personally, thus bypassing all the governmental red-tape.
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