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Canada will ban aerosol WD-40 in 2024
(www.westernstandard.news)
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Sorry, I should have been more clear. My "torn" was with regard to whether I agreed that it was a "sensationalist bullshit headline" when it was almost perfectly accurate in what was being banned: the aerosol. It missed the bit about "current formulation", though, hence my being torn.
It's current formulation is still legal with other delivery mechanisms, so there is a bit of nuance. As much as I dislike clickbait, I also don't except a headline to provide nuance.
What's unclear to me, and part of why this is a garbage article, is whether the VOCs from WD-40 are a result of the aerosolization of the WD-40, or a result of the VOCs in the propellent gas. I believe it's the latter in which case they can literally just replace them with nitrogen as the propellent to have essentially the exact same delivery mechanism.
Anecdotally, I bought one of these cans of WD-40 with a spray pump like 10 years ago just because it was all the store had and have never had an issue with it. I've never come across an application where I'm just spraying WD-40 like a can of spray paint where I need the continuous flow.