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If proposed amendments are adopted, the use and benefit of short-form on-product warnings will be significantly limited. The use of short-form for internet and catalog warnings will be completely eliminated.
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Proposed amendments only allow short-form warnings on products with five square inches or less of label space.
Short-form warnings will be required to name at least one chemical.
Businesses will have a one-year phase-in period and an unlimited sell-through period.
On January 8, 2021, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding Proposition 65 short-form warnings. The written comment period closes on March 8, 2021.
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A popular option for satisfying Proposition 65 warning requirements, the so-called “short-form” warning, is likely to be significantly curtailed in light of a January 8th proposal from the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA). Originally conceived as an option for products with limited label space, the 2016 amendments that fundamentally re-wrote the Prop 65 warning provisions did not actually restrict on-product use of the short-form warning. Over the last few years, the short-form warning has proliferated as companies like the fact that it takes up less label space and also does not require identification of the specific chemical for which the warning is being provided.