Quoth Mental_Mouse
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We run into the similarly "comedic" problem with drug warnings, most commonly paracetamol (Acetaminophen). Since the range between useful dose and dangerous dose is quite small and since it's in so many products it's theoretically easy to take a dangerous dose without realising it. To ensure that people are aware that it's an active ingredient anything that contains it get's a flag that puts a "Contains Paracetamol" warning on the label. Now, we could probably unflag any plain paracetamol product but that opens up liabilities when something bugs out in the field and is responsible for someone dying of slow liver failure.
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