California Green Chemistry Reg Revision Narrows “Concern” List

California’s latest iteration of the Safer Consumer Products regulations cuts the universe of “chemicals of concern” from 4,000 down to 1,200. The state’s Department of Toxic Substances Control will select the first five chemical/product category combinations up for review 180 days after the regulation enters into force.

California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control culls the number of potential “chemicals of concern” that may need to be excluded from products that fall into select categories in a new draft of the long-anticipated Safer Consumer Products regulations.

The draft was expected to be released in February, and makes changes from the last iteration of the regulations, which came out in November 2011 Also see "California DTSC No Longer

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