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California’s Prop 65 Short-Form Warning Changes Are Costly, Confusing And Quick – Lawyer

 
• By Eileen Francis

California’s proposal to amend ‘Clear and Reasonable’ safe harbor warnings will be costly for companies and confusing to consumers, and the one-year phase-in for changes to Prop 65 warnings is “unrealistic,” says consumer product and environmental regulation lawyer Dennis Raglin.

California’s latest proposal to limit the products eligible to use a short-form Proposition 65 warning and modify those warning statements places undue burdens and costs on companies while only confusing consumers, says consumer products and environmental regulation attorney Dennis Raglin.

“It’s a surgical precision it seems to me by this agency in afflicting regulation that burdens businesses and that ends...

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