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    Suit calls on 74 vitamin manufacturers to warn about lead

    SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz County District Attorney Bob Lee has joined eight other counties in asking the court to halt the sales of vitamin supplements made or sold by 74 companies unless customers are warned that the products contain cancer-causing lead.

    The complaint, initially filed by Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. in December in Alameda County Superior Court, alleges the manufacturers failed to provide the warning required by the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, also known as Proposition 65.
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