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Top Legal Challenges for the Consumer Products Industry in 2025 - With 2025 underway, the AFS Consumer Products team highlights some of the most pressing legal issues facing the consumer products industry this year....more
On January 1, 2025, new regulations governing Proposition 65’s so-called safe-harbor warnings went into effect. Proposition 65 requires businesses that employ 10 or more persons to provide “clear and reasonable” warnings on...more
California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (“OEHHA”) has revised the regulations on “Safe Harbor” warning language effective January 1, 2025. While a business is not required to use these Safe Harbor...more
The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment recently added vinyl acetate to the Proposition 65 list of carcinogens. Our Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group discusses what companies need to...more
California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) issued a notice of proposed amendments to Proposition 65 in October 2023 that significantly modify the information businesses are required to provide in...more
The New Year rings in with a likely wave of new enforcement actions under California’s Proposition 65 targeting Bisphenol-S (BPS), a popular substitute chemical for Bisphenol-A (BPA) which itself has been targeted by...more
In Part I and Part II of this blog series, we introduced and discussed per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly referred to as “forever chemicals,” which have been recent targets of consumer class actions and...more
California is one of several states that has started regulating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) in drinking water, consumer products, personal protective equipment (“PPE”), and firefighting foam. In...more
Yesterday, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) of the California Environmental Protection Agency announced the release of a draft document for public review describing proposed Public Health Goals...more
On February 6, 2020, the California State Water Resources Control Board lowered the response levels (RLs) for perflourooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), two of the most common compounds in the...more
Results from the first phase of sampling drinking water supply wells for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were recently published by the California State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) and show...more
California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has issued an important clarification of the scope of last year’s listing of “soluble” nickel compounds as reproductive toxins under Proposition 65....more
On May 2, 2019, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) published a definition of nickel (soluble compounds) for the purposes of Proposition 65 (Prop 65). Under the notice, nickel (soluble...more
Do you manufacture, distribute or supply consumer products (or component parts thereof) that are sold in California? If you do, then you likely are familiar with the California Proposition 65 warnings that should accompany...more
Proposition 65, known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, among other things requires businesses employing ten or more people to warn consumers if the business’ products contain a chemical...more
California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has launched a website, www.P65Warnings.ca.gov, intended to provide both businesses and consumers with information regarding the requirements for...more
In 1986, California voters passed the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, otherwise known by its original name, Proposition 65. Proposition 65 requires the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard...more
On April 22, 2016, California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) issued a final notice listing styrene as known to the state to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking...more
Effective May 11, 2016, manufacturers that make products containing Bisphenol A (“BPA”) will be required to comply with California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, also known as “Prop 65.” More...more
With the 2013 holiday season behind us, the State of California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) already appears to be looking forward to Christmas 2014. It has just wrapped and put a bow on next...more