USA - California Proposed to Use Short-form Warning on Products

​The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is providing notice of changes to the proposed regulatory action to amend California Code of Regulations, Title 27, Section 25602, Consumer Product Exposure Warning - Methods of Transmission, Section 25603, Consumer Product Exposure Warnings- Content, and Section 25607.2 Food Exposure Warnings - Content.

The proposed rulemaking would amend the safe harbor warning regulations to improve the short-form warnings to provide consumers more specific information, and to limit the use of the safe harbor short-form warning to small products. OEHHA has modified the proposed regulation based on the comment received at the beginning of 2021:

- increase the maximum label size for short-form warnings from 5 square inches to 12 square inches​

- allow use of the short-form warning on the internet or in catalogs where the short-form warning is used on the product label

- provide additional signal word options "CA WARNING" or "CALIFORNIA WARNING"

- provide additional warning language options

- provide minor clarifications on the wording of the warning

This initiates a public comment period from December 17, 2021 to January 14, 2022.