Action Figure paint causes cancer?
 

Dont mean to be a debbie downer cause im always color tweaking my figs but i noticed some labels on acrylic paint that we use for figures and it says "cancer and reproductive harm" ?

* How serious is this? i never even noticed it till now.
* Some paints say the warning, some dont?

or am i overthinking it?

If the warning is there, then the risk is real, but I imagine you’d have to bathe in it to be seriously worried. As for the paints that don’t list it, the reasons could range from loose regulation to no dangerous chemicals were used in its manufacture. I don’t paint at all (intend to start soon), but I plan to be careful not to leave paint on my fingers for extended periods. Not sure how helpful that is…

I'm not entirely up-to-date on the possible hazards of paint but I'd have to guess the warning probably refers to inhalation or consumption dangers.

That makes more sense...

Thanks guys for the info. you calmed me down alittle lol... i wash with soap the paint from my fingers the moment i am done. and i dont usually take long when im repainting a figure.

SideNote:: and its probably a good idea NOT to eat while you are painting a figure, just thought ill throw that out there.

Air-circulation via an open window and lava soap FTW lol

^^^ good one Blue marvel

I use only water based paint now, so probably not much cause for concern.


CCC.

^^^ yes, most of acrylic paints is water based

And here I am, using condoms like a sucker!
Pretty sure many of us are dads (or about to be!), so that's one we can cross off.

Condoms ARE fa suckaz!!...lolol
like ODB..
"o baby i like it rawwwwww...o baby i like it RAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!"


i feel almost 100% positive some of these fuggin figures are harmful to our health...HAS to be.. especially those old Spawn figures....offgassing and shit...(remember that STANK that use to happen when you opened them)
i was just talking about this a few weeks ago.

Hey, yeah! Some of my collection smells a little like a new car. Could that be a bad thing?

New Car Smell Is Toxic, Study Says: Which Cars Are Worst? (CBS, 2012)

^^^

TRUTH...this is REAL SHIT...that no one knows about!!!!!!!
a buddy of mine had Cancer...and the dr. was telling him about things to avoid.. he 100% told him..never get in cars immediately on a hot day.. roll the windows down and let the car air out a bit. Said the things used in the production of the interiors of some cars contain carcinogens....smh.. we are DOOMED!!!

no seriously...we are

The state of CA has some very unique laws that paint manufacturers must follow. Side nore if you have ceramic plates/dishes with a chip, throw them out. Coffee mugs especially those with paints on them should never get washed in the dishwasher. This was told to me by a rep at ceramic manufacturer.

And i’ll laugh when your wang looks like a fully loaded pizza. :p

neva make jokes about another mans junk..
plus i have a mutant power like Colossus...except only my junk turns to metal.
Metal junk..heh

Damnit man i was drinking soda when i read that and laughed. Ouch! ;)

The toxicity comes from the pigments, not all pigments are toxic but some like cadmium are. The exposure would come from eating the paint, or sanding it and breathing in the paint dust (or airbrushing without a mask). Some pigments that are listed as toxic are only irritants, but others are more harmful…however, unless your consistently sanding or eating paint, you shouldn't have any worries.

The real concern, like some have mentioned, are the chemicals that make the plastics, not so much the hard ABS type plastics but the softer ones like vinyls etc, since the smell they give off are the chemicals off-gassing. Any cheaper new toys I get, which have a strong smell, I put in a window until the smell dissipates. Putting the toy in the sun will accelerate the off-gassing, but you may not want to do that with something expensive like a Hot Toys fig.

Label is there for California and to be able to be sold in California. Apparently everything causes cancer in CA.

if it's good enough for a label in Cali...it's good enough for me to avoid.
i bought a hot air popcorn popper from Walmart. opened it up and it had that Cali warning..NOPE..good enough for me...it went back to the store.

California thinks everything causes cancer. Pretty sure there is a warning they give to every baby born that “life causes cancer”... I ignore most of that drivel. You can look in the news on any given day and there will be a California university study about coffee being the worst thing for you while another study (sometimes at the SAME university!) will have a study that coffee is the healthiest thing you could ever consume.

Remember that 99.999999999% of these studies are looking at lab mice that are exposed to things at a concentration that is millions of times more than you as a human would ever be exposed.