Re: OFT: But close to Re: Another warning label for the recordbooks...

[Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

Heather Anderson wrote:
> One of my favorites, found on a can of PEANUT Brittle:
> 
> Warning.  Contains Peanuts.
> 
> .....it's in the name of the product!

This proliferation of warnings is itself a hazard:

WARNING! Excessive use of warning notices causes readers to ignore all 
warning notices!

An example (that I may have cited before) is the Material Safety Data 
Sheet, also known as the MSDS Sheet. (Yes. Sheet Sheet.) The ones for 
Truly Dangerous Chemicals (H2S, H2SO4, NaOH, etc.) tend to get lost 
among the flurry of those for Mostly Harmless stuff such as sand, 
ethanol, and sucrose.
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