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Paterson kills sippy cup warning, pension booster
BY MICHAEL GORMLEY The Associated Press

    The sippy cup warning label fi ght is over in New York, for now.
    The bill that required a dental decay warning on sippy cups and baby bottles was among 23 vetoes Gov. David Paterson issued Monday. He also vetoed a pension sweetener for prison guards and a measure that would have required retailers to sanitize used mattresses in the battle against bedbugs in New York City.
    The Democrat also signed nearly 100 bills into law, including one allowing licensed midwives to deliver babies without written practice agreements with physicians. Another will require gas stations that provide full- and self-service sales to provide full service to disabled drivers at the cheaper, self-service price.
    For now, though, New Yorkers will have to take their chances with sippy cups. The warning label would have noted the risk of early childhood tooth decay from undefined prolonged use of a “vessel with a duckbilled lid, bill-shaped extension or bill-shaped spout.” The legislation also covered baby bottles.
    Trafficking in sippy cups without warning labels would have resulted in a civil penalty of up to $250 for the first offense and $1,000 for repeat offenders.
    “Brief warning labels are simply not the best vehicle to convey detailed information about general parental practice and proper use of a product that is not inherently dangerous,” Paterson wrote in his veto message.
    A New York Daily News editorial in June had called the bill “nanny statism run mad.” .........................>>>>.....................>>>>.................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01102&AppName=1