All
products shipped by Jancoline into the State of California are subject to
Proposition 65 (“Prop 65”) or The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act
of 1986. “Prop 65” was created through the ballot initiative process and was
intended to protect California citizens and the State’s drinking water from a
State determined list of over 850 chemicals that are “known” by the State to
cause cancer, reproductive harm, or birth defects. This list and other
information regarding “Prop 65” can be accessed at http://oehha.ca.gov/prop65.html.
Prop 65 requires that a “clear and reasonable warning” be
provided by a Person/Company while doing business, who manufactures, produces,
assembles, processes, handles, distributes, stores, sells, or otherwise
transfers a consumer product which he or she knows to contain a chemical known
to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity to any person to whom the
product is sold or transferred.
The lead state agency handling Proposition 65, the Office of
Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA; www.oehha.ca.gov), has established safe harbor levels
which include No Significant Risk Levels (NSRLs) for cancer-causing chemicals
and Maximum Allowable Dose Levels (MADLs) for chemicals causing reproductive
toxicity for many of the 850 chemicals listed under Proposition 65. Exposure
levels and discharges to drinking water sources that are below the safe harbor
levels are exempt from the requirements of Proposition 65. A document that
provides the status of OEHHA’s adoption or development of NSRLs and MADLs is
available below.
Because we cannot test every piece of every order that we ship
to California for every one of the Proposition 65 listed 850 chemicals, you may
continue to have concerns about compliance with Proposition 65. If so, then the
safest option is to include a label on each product that may ship to the State
of California which we will do free of charge upon request. The label will read
as follows and will ensure full compliance with California Proposition 65
requirements:
WARNING: Cancer and
Reproductive Harm - www.p65warnings.ca.gov.
For a plain language version of the Proposition 65 regulations,
please visit: http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/background/p65plain.html.