California Proposition 65

Proposition is a California law that promotes clean drinking water and keeps consumer products free of hazardous chemicals that cause cancer and birth defects.

Proposition 65 was approved by California voters as The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. It requires the state of California to publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer or birth defects and other reproductive harm.

This list is updated at least once a year and current features around 775 chemicals. All chemicals present on the list must be labeled with warnings of exposure for consumer, occupational, and environmental hazards.

The method transmitting the warning can vary as long as it displays a “clear and reasonable” warning message available prior to an individual's exposure to the hazard. The message must read that a chemical is known to the state of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.

A warning has to be in full compliance with the information and labeling requirements of both the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard and the California Hazard Communication Standard. The warning has to appear on or with an RTK label.

Proposition 65 warning labels should read as following for chemicals known to the state to cause cancer:
WARNING: This chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer.

They should read as following for chemicals known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity:
 WARNING: This chemical known to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm.

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