Fashion Nova’s ‘cancer warning’ label is freaking Twitter out

Known carcinogens: cigarettes, tanning beds, asbestos and now…bathing suits?

Twitter is buzzing after a user posted a photo of her slime-green Fashion Nova bikini on Monday, complete with a terrifying sewn-in warning. The label reads: “This product contains Di(2-ethylhexl) phthalate, lead and cadmium, which are known in the state of California to cause cancer, birth defects and other reproductive harm.”

Um, what?

“Hold on you telling me fashion nova causes cancer?” a user responded. “Wild.”

Other tweeters were quick to point out that the suit — a sporty, cap-sleeved two-piece that sells for $34.99 – is not the only item that now comes with this frightening heads-up.

“This is a label on EVERYTHING in CALIFORNIA. Everything,” one person wrote. Others agreed, adding that it currently appears on a wide range of products, including Christmas lights, furniture and even airplanes in the Golden State.

Sure enough, Fashion Nova’s disclosure is a requirement of California’s Proposition 65, which compels sellers to tell the public if their products contain any potentially toxic chemicals. The coastal state has maintained a list of substances that cause “cancer, birth defects or reproductive harm” since 1987. Today, it has roughly 900 entries according to a California government website.

And while the warning is worrisome, not everyone on Twitter is so put out by it.

“Beauty is pain and sometimes death,” one user deadpanned.