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A warning label is a label attached to a product, or contained in a product's instruction manual, warning the user about risks associated with its use, and may include restrictions by the manufacturer or seller on certain uses.[1] Most of them are placed to limit civil liability in lawsuits against the item's manufacturer or seller (see product liability).[2][3] That sometimes results in labels which for some people seem to state the obvious.
Lack of a warning label can become an informational defect, which is a type of product defect.[4]
- ^ Wogalter, Michael S. (2006). "Introduction". In Wogalter, Michael S. (ed.). Handbook of warnings. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 978-0-8058-4724-6.
- ^ Egilman, D. & Bohme, S. R. (2006). "Purposes and Scope of Warnings". In Wogalter, Michael S. (ed.). Handbook of warnings. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 978-0-8058-4724-6.
- ^ Khoury, Clarke E. (1989). "Warning Labels May Be Hazardous to Your Health: Common-Law and Statutory Responses to Alcoholic Beverage Manufacturers' Duty to Warn". Cornell Law Review. 75: 158–188.
- ^ "What Are Different Types of Product Defects and How Do they Affect Your Claim?". Retrieved 16 November 2024.