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Originally Posted by Quoth
I've not seen any made in last 60 years that are not simply the diamond or sapphire mounted on an alloy tube (maybe a press fit). There is a plastic moulding to mount it on the cartridge. No other materials. Someone is mistaken.
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Not necessarily - California's "Proposition 65" was a badly worded ballot initiative that has been widely abused to the point that some mail order companies will no longer ship merchandise to California. One example is with metal alloys; if an alloy contains lead, then any product that contains that alloy must carry the Prop 65 warning. Some brass alloys contain lead to make machining easier, so that content - no matter how trivial - triggers the warning.
California attorneys general have vigorously pursued companies they deem in violation of Prop 65 so some companies who do business in California routinely label innocent products with the Prop 65 warning as a precautionary measure. The label no longer means anything to most people.