Source: https://www.ul.com/, March 23, 2022
By: Chelsea Lane

The California Environmental Protection Agency Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is the lead agency for implementing and issuing public rulings about the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, also known as Proposition 65. Prop 65 was enacted to protect citizens and the state’s drinking water sources from chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm, and to inform citizens about exposures to such chemicals. Companies that operate within California, with ten or more employees, are required to provide a clear and reasonable warning through labeling consumer products, posting signs at the workplace, distributing notices at rental housing complexes, or publishing notices in newspapers before knowingly and intentionally exposing anyone to a listed chemical.  Once a chemical appears on the list, businesses have 12 months to comply with warning requirements. Proposition 65 also prohibits companies that do business within California from knowingly discharging listed chemicals into drinking water. Once a chemical is listed, businesses have 20 months to comply with the discharge prohibition. Read more.