Garden hose with Prop 65 warning

[Indigo Blue]

Someone outside my immediate family ordered an expensive garden hose. It had a large tag attached to it that had the Prop 65 warning in a large, scary font. It cautioned that you should wash your hands after handling. This person is now afraid to use the hose, and wants to send it back. 
 

I know Prop 65 is on almost everything. I know it’s something about avoiding being sued, so they just preemptively put it in lots of things to cover themselves. I usually ignore it for the most part. 
 

It’s fine to keep the hose, right? Do you pay attention to or regard the Prop 65?

I mostly ignore that, but I am a bit confused by it. 

[vonfirmath]

Honestly -- I wash my hands after handling hoses, etc because there is no telling what the hose has been dragged through over its life (We even have poison ivy)  I'd prefer not to start reacting to any of it.

 

[Carol in Cal.]

Prop 65 is so ubiquitous here in CA that I completely ignore it all the time.  Just saying.

[marbel]

23 minutes ago, Carol in Cal. said:

Prop 65 is so ubiquitous here in CA that I completely ignore it all the time.  Just saying.

I agree (though I don't live in CA anymore). 

I'd be curious what the hose is made of. But I'd not get rid of it. 

[maize]

I'm sure it is no more problematic than any other hose. 

Don't drink from it unless it is designated for drinking water--that goes for any hose (there are hoses that are designated safe for potable water use, used for filling RV tanks and such; they are usually white).

 

[itsheresomewhere]

8 minutes ago, maize said:

I'm sure it is no more problematic than any other hose. 

Don't drink from it unless it is designated for drinking water--that goes for any hose (there are hoses that are designated safe for potable water use, used for filling RV tanks and such; they are usually white).

 

RV hoses are usually white or blue but also now come in a lime green.  

[KungFuPanda]

Is this the “it causes cancer in California” prop? That’s everything!

[Faith-manor]

Well, I think being alive causes cancer. This is where we are at now. Sigh. I mean, we cannot possibly avoid everything. So I tend to ignore some of these things.

That said, I wear my garden gloves when I use the hose because I drag that thing all over this yard, and I have a dog. I am sure at one point or another it has been dragged through dog plops. So ya. When I am done gardening, the gloves come off and hands get washed.

I would not get rid of perfectly good hose unless I was committed to getting a hand pump for my well and hauling water by the pail full Laura Ingalls style, and frankly, no just no. I am not enamored with nostalgia for the good ole days though maybe if I had to work that damn hard physically on such little food, I would not have the hips I currently possess.

[Clarita]

I hate the prop 65 warning. It's so ubiquitous here that you have to ignore it. Then some stuff most certainly slips under the radar and is in fact not innocuous. I haven't researched hoses enough to say whether it's a real problem or not. 

[Indigo Blue]

27 minutes ago, Clarita said:

Then some stuff most certainly slips under the radar and is in fact not innocuous. I

Yeah, this is where my mind goes. So many things, upon being opened, just give off a weird chemical smell. 

[EKS]

7 hours ago, Carol in Cal. said:

Prop 65 is so ubiquitous here in CA that I completely ignore it all the time.  Just saying.

Which is hilarious because that is the exact opposite of what its proponents intended.