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PCPC Exploring Alternate Approach For Meeting California Air Quality Goals

 
• By Lauren Nardella

By shifting to less reactive VOCs, the personal-care industry could reduce its contribution to ground-level ozone without sacrificing product efficacy, which stakeholders say is a virtual certainty under mass VOC reductions proposed in November by the California Air Resources Board.

Vector artistic pen and ink drawing illustration of smoke coming from house chimney into air. Environmental concept of VOC or volatile organic compound pollution. - Vector

The Personal Care Products Council is in discussions with the California Air Resources Board about an alternate approach to reducing cosmetics products’ ozone impacts without cutting volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to levels that would compromise product functionality.

The trade group could follow the lead of other sectors that have worked with the CARB to develop a maximum...

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