Industry Unnerved By Pending Prop 65 Rewrite

The agency that implements California’s Proposition 65, which requires product labels to include information about the presence of potentially dangerous ingredients as determined by the state’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessments, wants to tweak the requirements. A post from Sidley Austen looks at the proposed changes, among them some new testing protocols for determining the concentration of a listed substance and a narrowing of the “safe harbor” allowed for the presence of trace amounts of lead, and notes that during recent workshops convened by the agency to discuss the proposals, “the regulated community expressed concern.”