{"id":709,"date":"2015-02-13T21:36:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T02:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/?p=709"},"modified":"2015-04-14T13:09:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T17:09:46","slug":"california-oehha-proposes-new-proposition-65-warning-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/2015\/02\/13\/california-oehha-proposes-new-proposition-65-warning-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"California \u2013 OEHHA Proposes New Proposition 65 Warning Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oehha.ca.gov\/prop65\/CRNR_notices\/WarningWeb\/NPR_Article6.html\" target=\"_blank\">notice <\/a>proposing changes to California Proposition 65 with the warning labels and other information provided to consumers. The new regulatory text, which is titled &#8220;Clear and Reasonable Warning&#8221;, is available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oehha.ca.gov\/prop65\/CRNR_notices\/WarningWeb\/pdf\/ProposedArticle6_cleartext.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">OEHHA website<\/a><a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\"><\/a>. A public hearing on the proposed changes will be held on March 25, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Proposition 65 requires manufacturers and importers to provide a warning to purchasers when a user can potentially be exposed to any of the listed substances. Although over 900 substances are included in Proposition 65, only about a dozen of them (including lead, cadmium, and hexavalent chromium) are frequently litigated. When such a substance is present, organizations have typically labelled the product with the vague statement &#8220;This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm&#8221;. Under the revised regulation, more specific information about the substance and the risk it poses to the user must be provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has issued a notice proposing changes to California Proposition 65 with the warning labels and other information provided to consumers. The new regulatory text, which is titled &#8220;Clear and Reasonable Warning&#8221;, is available on the OEHHA website. A public hearing on the proposed changes will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[79,78],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-regulations","tag-california-proposition-65","tag-prop-65"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}