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March 13, 2018 - Environmental Law, Product Liability, Consumer Products
WARNING: Proposition 65 Farce About to Repeat Itself for Vulnerable Foods and Flavorings
Plaintiffs have begun serving Proposition 65 notices of violation alleging unwarned exposures to furfuryl alcohol (FFA). Like acrylamide, which has been the subject of significant Proposition 65 litigation already, FFA is present in a wide variety of foods and flavorings and forms as a
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March 05, 2018 - Environmental Law, Product Liability, Consumer Products
Round One Goes to Roundup: Court Temporarily Enjoins Proposition 65 Warnings for Glyphosate and Glyphosate Residues in Foods
By: William F. Tarantino
Last Monday, a federal judge temporarily barred California from requiring cancer warnings on products that contain detectable amounts of glyphosate—the main ingredient in Monsanto’s flagship herbicide Roundup. Trace residues of glyphosate in food products had already become a potential target of Proposition 65 bounty
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February 22, 2018 - Environmental Law, Product Liability, Consumer Products
California Proposes Next Group of Priority Products Under Its Green Chemistry Initiative
By: William F. Tarantino
California’s Green Chemistry Initiative has taken another step towards regulating a widely available consumer product. On February 15, 2018, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) released a discussion draft document entitled "Product – Chemical Profile for Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in Carpets
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February 13, 2018 - Environmental Law, Product Liability, Consumer Products
California’s Green Chemistry Agency Issues Its Draft 2018-2020 Three-Year Priority Product Work Plan
By: William F. Tarantino
On February 8, 2018, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) released a Draft Three-Year Priority Product Work Plan (2018-2020) (new Work Plan) under its Safer Consumer Products (SCP) Program. The SCP Program is an innovative regulatory scheme to evaluate and require safer
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November 29, 2017 - Environmental Law, Product Liability, Consumer Products, Retail
Expiring Soon: Temporary BPA Warning Regs Under Prop. 65
With the holidays and end of the year quickly approaching, here is what food and beverage manufacturers and sellers need to know before the temporary Proposition 65 safe harbor warning for Bisphenol A (BPA) exposures expires on December 30, 2017. Read our Law360 article.
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November 01, 2017 - Environmental Law, Consumer Products
Full Disclosure: New Labeling for Cleaning Products
By: William F. Tarantino
On October 15, 2017, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 258, known as the Cleaning Product Right to Know Act of 2017. The Act requires manufacturers of most cleaning products sold in California to disclose detailed information regarding their chemical content
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October 11, 2017 - Environmental Law, Product Liability, Consumer Products
Consumer Product Update – California’s Green Chemistry Initiative Looks for New Products to Regulate
Nail polish, household cleaners, carpets, upholstery, lead acid batteries and other products may be targeted for regulation under California’s Safer Consumer Products Program. The Program, also known as the California Green Chemistry Initiative, is an innovative regulatory scheme to evaluate and seek safer substitutes
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August 01, 2017 - Environmental Law, Product Liability, Consumer Products
Warning: New Proposition 65 Warning Regulations Taking Effect
A year from now, dramatic changes to California’s Proposition 65 warning regulations take full effect. The new regulations (formally published by the State in August 2016) significantly alter the “safe harbor” rules for providing Prop 65 warnings. Companies that have not yet started preparing
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July 10, 2017 - Environmental Law, Product Liability, Consumer Products
California Adopts First Green Chemistry Regulations for Children’s Nap Mats and Provides Important Guidance for Its Alternatives Analysis
California took two important steps forward to implement its new Green Chemistry Initiative, also known as the Safer Consumer Products (SCP) Program, to regulate and encourage replacement of toxic chemicals in consumer products. First, it adopted new regulations for its first priority product, children’s
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April 07, 2017 - Environmental Law, Product Liability, Consumer Products, Retail
California Adds New Priority Consumer Product for Green Chemistry Regulation
California’s innovative Safer Consumer Products regulations, also known as the Green Chemistry Initiative, are ready for another step forward with the proposed inclusion of Spray Polyurethane Foam (SPF) Systems containing Unreacted Methylene Diphenyl Diisocyanates (MDI) as a Priority Product. These SPF systems are used
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Topic Archives: Environmental Law

WARNING: Proposition 65 Farce About to Repeat Itself for Vulnerable Foods and Flavorings

Round One Goes to Roundup: Court Temporarily Enjoins Proposition 65 Warnings for Glyphosate and Glyphosate Residues in Foods

By: William F. Tarantino

California Proposes Next Group of Priority Products Under Its Green Chemistry Initiative

By: William F. Tarantino

California’s Green Chemistry Agency Issues Its Draft 2018-2020 Three-Year Priority Product Work Plan

By: William F. Tarantino

Expiring Soon: Temporary BPA Warning Regs Under Prop. 65

Full Disclosure: New Labeling for Cleaning Products

By: William F. Tarantino

Consumer Product Update – California’s Green Chemistry Initiative Looks for New Products to Regulate

Warning: New Proposition 65 Warning Regulations Taking Effect

California Adopts First Green Chemistry Regulations for Children’s Nap Mats and Provides Important Guidance for Its Alternatives Analysis

California Adds New Priority Consumer Product for Green Chemistry Regulation