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One of Supreme's Spring/Summer 2021 items warns of being threatening to both your health and fashion sense, depending on how you read an old California law.

Introduction If you sell goods in the State of California, you are probably familiar with Proposition 65 (“Prop 65”), which requires businesses to provide a warning before they “knowingly and intentionally expose any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.” Prop 65’s sweeping reach is due to the fact that the state has listed over 900 chemicals as potentially causing cancer or reproductive toxicity, and it applies to any product that a business sells, or manufactures, distributes, or offers for sale, into California. Because of Prop 65�...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: 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. TAKEAWAYS 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 Environmen...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: 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 ...

Prop 65 Short Form Warnings Set To Significantly Change Friday, January 8, 2021 Today, California’s Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), published proposed amendments to Article 6 of the state’s Proposition 65 regulations. Very shortly, our Prop 65 team will publish a full analysis of the proposed changes; however, in brief: Currently, Prop 65 regulations allow certain companies to use a “short form warning label” in certain situations; however, it remains commonplace for many companies to be able to utilize the short for...