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California DTSC Releases Draft Alternatives Analysis Guide For Comment

 
• By Ryan Nelson

The Department of Toxic Substances Control issued draft guidance last September on the first stage of analyses required from responsible parties to identify alternatives to Priority Product chemicals under California’s Safer Consumer Products regs. Industry groups identified weaknesses in the document, but said they were holding out for complete guidance, which is now available and open for comment.

Nail-product manufacturers in particular should take note of the California Department of Toxic Substances Control’s draft Alternatives Analysis Guide, released earlier this month, with the “toxic trio” and other nail-care chemicals floated as possible targets for selection in the agency’s second round of Priority Products.

Priority Products – which identify a chemical of concern in a specific product class (e.g., paint stripper with methylene chloride, a proposed first-round pick) – are subject to alternatives analyses...

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