Warning: For Pet Use Only. This is Not a Childs Toy
So, I bought a yellow "flying disk" (frisbee) at my local Petco and was playing with my boxer puppy this morning trying to explain to her that part of the game of "frisbee" was giving it back to me after she gets it.
Finally retrieving it I turned it over and noticed a sticker on the back in bold upper case letters: WARNING: FOR PET USE ONLY. THIS IS NOT A CHILDS TOY.
It went on for a paragraph on other warnings such as to make sure that the toy was large enough that my pet wouldn't swallow it (That would be one big dog!).
I read it to my wife and said, "But it's a frisbee!". Her theory was that it would have required extra testing if it were a child's toy.
When a frisbee says that it isn't for children and that you should make sure your dog can't swallow it, we're in regulatory and litigation hell.
Finally retrieving it I turned it over and noticed a sticker on the back in bold upper case letters: WARNING: FOR PET USE ONLY. THIS IS NOT A CHILDS TOY.
It went on for a paragraph on other warnings such as to make sure that the toy was large enough that my pet wouldn't swallow it (That would be one big dog!).
I read it to my wife and said, "But it's a frisbee!". Her theory was that it would have required extra testing if it were a child's toy.
When a frisbee says that it isn't for children and that you should make sure your dog can't swallow it, we're in regulatory and litigation hell.
Let the chinese invest in equipment; buy goods from them and resell them here at higher prices and spirit the money out of the country or into your backyard repository.
I used to make medical equipment until the FDA got into regulating it. The risks were just too high. One of our competitors ran afoul of one of their reporting requirements, and their $80 million company was padlocked and never regained their position. It was definitely a wake up call for me.
Also, no jobs go overseas. The jobs do not exist if you cannot work for a market wage where the market is not reduced by governments.
I am sending about $200k of dollars to china every year. I dont know where it goes, but we certainly arent getting FREE stuff from china. The chickens will come home to roost at some point.
I just had to get some urinary track cat food for my old cat. The last time was 3 years ago but a 4 pound bag rose $22 which is at least $2 a pound more than I spend on myself for a pound of food. Glad I don't have to eat $13 salads, though I tend to only eat at home and not eat much green stuff. I bet things are so easy for most diners, that they can just dump most of those $13 salads.
Good thing your pet is not a hippopotamus...they could choke on one of those...
Also make sure they do not mount it on a stick to lick it like a lollipop.
For that would not be sanitary even if there ain't no cancer causing materials.
Further information may be obtained from the Department of Health and long phone listings of tort lawyers in the Yellow Pages.
While I wouldn't argue that point, I still wont admit to my sickly persistent wife, that my 12 year old boxer will die eventually. He just has to wait for me to pass first.
Good luck with the Frisbee wrestling. I actually had to take hold of the object; Frisbee or ball; and make him think he was hurting me, Oow, before he let it go.
When a society is more concerned about protecting the mentally deficient than enabling the gifted, it's on the inevitable glideslope to the trash heap. Of course the power brokers would rather the population was majority idiot, since the stupid are more easily led.
So let's look at the economics of that warning and how people can use Government to make profit.
Pet toys, i.e. frisbee is made from the same materials that the "human" version is, same shape, same everything, with the exception of the "testing" and regulations that apply.
So I make a Dog frisbee, which will sell for 2 - 3 x what a childs toy would just because it is a pet toy and dog owners tend to be product snobs anyhow. ( I am a dog owner).
They can make this for 15 cents with a complete landed cost of 25 cents. Sell it for $5.00 or more.
To make the human version adding in regulations the landed cost is $1.25.
I can sell just as many of each, so that printed warning most likely makes them more money, and people will use it for kids anyhow.
I'm waiting for the FDA requirement for a sticker on toilet paper: "WARNING! Danger of breakthrough unless multi-folded!"
Actually, I have to give credit to Mad Magazine for that one, in which it appeared in an issue in the late '60s. I figure the FDA and the EPA lawyers have been burning taxpayer dollars in litigation against each other ever since then over how to come up with a sticker that is fit for human use and environmentally friendly at the same time.
In my post above, right after I wrote the line "I'm waiting..." I got a visual of two giant government agencies arguing over what to do about a sticker on toilet paper. I just couldn't let it go...