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OEHHA once again proposes to revise California 65 short format warning labels

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2023-11-09

OEHHA once again proposes to revise California 65 short format warning labels

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has once again proposed revising the short format warning label for California 65 to make the content of the warning label more informative to consumers.

OEHHA stipulates safe harbor warnings for products, and businesses use these warning labels to warn consumers of exposure to chemicals on the California 65 chemical list. OEHHA specifies safe harbor (full format) warning labels and shorter format warning labels for consumer goods, with short format warning labels intended for use on small packaging or labels. The current short format warning labels do not require specific chemical exposure to be displayed in the warning. OEHHA has noticed that this short format warning label is overused, and the warning language does not provide consumers with information about the chemicals listed in the product.
OEHHA proposed modifying the California 65 short format warning label in 2021 and 2022, but these recommendations were not implemented. The recommended modifications to OEHHA this time are summarized as follows:

Add a requirement that warning labels issued should indicate specific chemical substances;
Clarify existing safe harbor warning requirements in products and catalogs sold on the internet;
Clarify that short format warnings can be used to provide food safety port warnings and add signal word options to food warnings;
Provide specific safe harbor warnings for passenger or non highway motor vehicle parts and leisure vessel parts.

For ordinary consumer goods, a comparison between the current short format warning labels and this proposal (for example, different chemical substances have different hazard attributes, and the specific hazard attributes are based on the actual chemical substance):

There will be public comments on the proposed changes to OEHHA. OEHHA requires submission of comments by December 20, 2023, and the corresponding public hearing (synchronized online) will be held on Wednesday, December 13, 2023 at the California Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Sacramento.