The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) oversees implementation of California's chemical exposure warnings law, commonly known as Proposition 65. This law requires businesses to provide warnings before people are exposed to chemicals on the state’s Proposition 65 list .

By law, a warning must be given for listed chemicals unless the exposure is low enough to pose no significant risk of cancer or is significantly below levels observed to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. Learn about how businesses can comply with Proposition 65.

2024年1月26日 · If you’ve gone shopping at all lately, you might have noticed a growing number of products bearing the Proposition 65 warning, which states that the product contains chemicals known to cause cancer in the state of California. Sounds concerning, right?

Certain foods contain chemicals that are on the Proposition 65 list because they can cause cancer and/or birth defects or other reproductive harm. Proposition 65 requires businesses to determine if they must provide a warning about exposure to listed chemicals.

Proposition 65 requires businesses to provide warnings to Californians about significant exposures to chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Exposure to these chemicals may take place when products are acquired or used.

A Proposition 65 warning informs a consumer that s/he is being exposed to carcinogens or reproductive toxins that exceed certain threshold levels. This is not the same as a regulatory decision that a product is "safe" or "unsafe."

2017年8月1日 · Businesses subject to Proposition 65 are required to provide a warning if they cause exposures to chemicals listed as causing birth defects or reproductive harm that exceed 1/1000th of the “no observable effect level.”

2021年8月4日 · It’s always alarming to see a Prop 65 warning on a food or beverage you want to consume. And if these warning labels are basically everywhere, does it even matter? Is Prop 65 just a nuisance or is it actually beneficial?

Proposition 65 requires the State of California to maintain and update a list of chemicals that can cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Businesses that expose individuals to listed chemicals through their products or operations generally must provide warnings.

2025年1月1日 · Under Proposition 65, significant exposure to any of these phthalates would require a warning before an exposure. ”Safe harbor levels” for DEHP, DBP, DnHP, and DIDP have been established to assist businesses in determining whether a …