The short form of the California Proposition 65 warning that appears on numerous consumer products may look different in the future. California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard.
Earlier this month, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) provided
public notice that it plans to amend regulations governing Proposition 65 (Prop 65) short-form warning labels. OEHHA offered to hold a
public hearing, upon request, which would need to be received by
February 22, 2021 and it requested
public comments on the
March 8, 2021. While these changes only apply to products sold in California, many companies take a broad approach to applying these labels to many, if not all, of their products sold in the US because of the size of the California tobacco consumer market. Therefore, these changes could have far reaching effects for any tobacco-related businesses that sell tobacco products in California or broadly use Prop 65 warnings.
California Supreme Court allows broader warning labels for bisphenol A
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Items at a natural products store for children are marked as free of bisphenol A. California will broaden its warning labels.Brant Ward / The Chronicle 2011
California will broaden its warning labels for bisphenol A, a chemical widely used in plastic cups and other food and drink containers, after the state Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the chemical industry Wednesday.
Since 2015, the state has required labels on products containing bisphenol A stating that it can cause reproductive harm in women. The court order upholds state health officials’ decision to require additional warnings of “developmental toxicity,” or harm to fetuses and newborn and young children whose mothers are exposed to the chemical during pregnancy.
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There has been considerable discussion about potential health and environmental risks from a family of chemicals generally known as per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). There are many family members and from a risk standpoint, what applies for one, does not necessarily apply to another. However, the PFAS acronym is generally used to mean the entire list of associated substances. What makes PFAS unusual and difficult to deal with is that they do not degrade easily and thus last much longer in the environment than many other common contaminants, earning them the ‘Forever Chemicals’ moniker.
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The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) yesterday released its explanation for withdrawing proposed “clarifications” to the Proposition 65 regulations governing internet sales. Last January, OEHHA proposed what it considered to be modest clarifications to the safe harbor warning regulations, including provisions that would:
• Specify that “internet sales” include purchases through mobile device applications;
• Clarify that the option to provide a warning “by electronic device or process” is intended to apply to in-store product purchases at a physical retail location, and that this provision is unrelated to the requirements for warnings provided online for internet purchases;