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involved in the pre5wrice or use of such substance in households is such <br /> that, the objective of thv protection of the public health and safety <br /> can. be adequately acr•ved only by keeping such substance, when so <br /> intended or packaged , out of the channels of interstate commerce. <br /> Because methylene chloride is an animal carcinogen and a. suspected. <br /> human. carcinogcn , cautionary labeling regarding limited usa Or- expozure <br /> will not adequately protrzct consumers from. thiz cancer risk. <br /> r. <br /> CPSC hay previously recognized the ineffectiveness of cautionary <br /> Iabeling for, a carcinogenic substance in its regulation of <br /> salf-press urized products. containing vinyl chloride .as a banned <br /> hazardous substance. Ser-. 16 C.F. R. section 1500. 17 (a) ( 10) . These <br /> products, likrr consumer products containing DCM, prasent a cancer- risk <br /> re-multing frorno inhalation as the primary route of expc-ure. <br /> ThF: efficacy of cautionary labeling, as well aa. other types of <br /> consumer information and education , hasbeen disputed by critics who <br /> claim that such informational e�-forts are least effective when seeking <br /> to modify consumer behavior, as opposed to efforts to promote a: safer <br /> device or product. l• Thus, whiles some might arc}ue that use of <br /> prcGducts containing DCM may be safe if' done, so for short periods of , <br /> time while outdoors and using a respirator , it isveryunlikely that a <br /> labA1 can bring about such a drastic bahavioral change.)( <br /> '4 Seel Adler and Pittlo, Cajolery or Command: Ar•e Education <br /> Campaigns an Adequaty Substitute for Regulation?, 1 YALE J . R. <br /> lEr> j 166-167, 191 (19134) ; and Staelin , The Effects of Consumer <br /> Educzrtion on Consumer Product Safoty Behavior , a J. CONSUMER <br /> RESEARCH, :O, :;1 ( 1478) . <br /> -6- <br />