Get to know Proposal 65 of California’s State

The 65 proposals of California’s state come into force in 1985 protecting water and food. This action exposes carcinogenic substances that caused birth deformities or any other reproductive disorder. The office overseeing the reviewed and published list of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (ORHHA), requested once a year, to the state of California, an updated list to publish these chemical substances. Check: https://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/prop65_list/Newlist.html

Who is affected?

Proposal 65 affects sold or distributed products in California, including textiles, non-perishable products, toys, youthful products, electronics, and electricity. In Mexico, chile inspection was intensified, regarding lead and heavy metals, however, this was done to other products like beans and rice.

The proposal explains, if a product has an exceed element, this shall be specified in the label with the following warning: This product has acknowledged chemicals, by the state of California as carcinogenic and birth deformities or any other reproduction maladies.

For a heavy metals analysis, there is the Mexican official norm NOM-117-SSA1-1994, for goods and services, a testing method for discovering cadmium, arsenic, lead, tin, copper, iron, zinc, and mercury in food, running and purified water by atomic reception spectrometry.

If you trade any type of product in California, please review the list and permitted limits of the norm, to comply with them.

Related regulations

Among other compliance regulations for products, you can find the following:

• Federal Hazardous Substances Act, FHSA, managed by the Consumer Product Safety Comission and request products to be label indicating probable hazards for humans as flammability, toxicity, corrosion and irritation. Get to know more: https://www.cpsc.gov/es/Business–Manufacturing/Business-Education/Business-Guidance/FHSA-Requirements/
• Toxic Substances Control Act, TSCA, request for all the products to be evaluated and approved by the Environmental Protection Agency before these products are used. Get to know more: https://www.epa.gov/tsca-inventory
• Clean air Act, CAA and corresponding state laws which regulates the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that products might contain. Get to know more: https://www.epa.gov/clean-air-act-overview.