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Its Go Time for the New Proposition 65 Warning Regulations

Today, August 30, 2018 ... marks the date that the 2016 amendments to the warning requirements of California Proposition 65 go into full effect. This brings to a close the two year phase-in period for the new "safe…

California Proposition 65: Beware of Liability for Website Sales

Historically, the bulk of Prop 65 actions have come from plaintiff attorneys sending waves of people into retail stores in California to purchase and then test products for possible exposures to listed chemicals. This…

Prop 65 Court Win for Cereal Manufacturers Sets the Table for Further Challenges to Warning Requirements

In a remarkable and perhaps precedent-setting decision, a California appellate court sided with cereal manufacturers in ruling last week that Proposition 65 cancer warnings for acrylamide were preempted by federal…

WARNING: New Proposition 65 Amendments Go Into Effect August 30

We are seven weeks away from the California Proposition 65 amendments adopted in 2016 going into full effect, including substantial changes to the wording and format for providing warnings, new guidance on providing…

California Acts to Decaffeinate Cancer Warnings for Coffee

Responding quickly to a landmark court ruling requiring coffee sold in the state to bear a Proposition 65 warning label, California has initiated a proposed rulemaking to clarify that exposure to acrylamide and other…