What are the specific requirements for California 65 testing?
Date：2024-12-05 16:59:04 Classification
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California 65 requires companies to provide warnings when they know that intentionally adding listed chemicals will cause significant exposure, to help California residents make informed decisions when using products and reduce exposure to these chemicals.
The specific requirements of California 65 (Proposition 65) mainly include the following points:
1. Chemical warnings: Under California Regulation 65, businesses must provide warnings to California residents about their potential exposure to chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.
2. Chemical List: California 65 requires the state to maintain and update at least annually a list of chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity. The list currently contains more than 900 chemicals.
3. Discharge Prohibition: California 65 also prohibits companies from knowingly discharging large quantities of listed chemicals into drinking water sources.
4. Clear and Reasonable Warnings: Companies must provide clear and reasonable warnings when they “knowingly and intentionally” expose individuals to listed chemicals.
5. Compliance limits (Safe Harbor Levels): California 65 stipulates No Significant Risk Levels (NSRLs) and Maximum Allowable Dose Levels (MADLs).
6. Testing requirements: Companies need to conduct third-party testing of products to ensure that the content of chemicals such as lead and cadmium in the product meets the compliance limits of the US FDA and California 65.
7. Product Testing: Products can be submitted for testing as individual components or finished products. If the same material is used in several different styles, a report can be submitted to demonstrate compliance.
8. Test report validity period: The test report is valid for one calendar year from the date of test release.
9. Warning label: If the product does not meet FDA limits, it will be rejected by HSN QA and cannot be sold. If a product meets the FDA limits but does not meet the California 65 limits, a California 65 warning label is required on each unit sold.
10. New short-form warning label requirements: Under the latest proposed changes, short-form warning labels must contain at least one chemical name to indicate the presence of each exposure route (cancer or reproductive harm).
11. Transition period: The latest proposed changes state that companies have a three-year transition period to comply with the new short-form warning label requirements.
These requirements ensure that California residents can understand the hazardous chemicals they may be exposed to and make informed decisions. Businesses must comply with these regulations to protect the health and safety of consumers.
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