- On March 2, 2026, the Personal Care Products Council (PCPC) filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging California’s Proposition 65 cancer warning requirement for diethanolamine (DEA). Proposition 65 is a
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California Court Applies Proposition 65 Safe Harbor in Dismissal
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- Last month, a California Superior Court dismissed a case against Gulf Pacific Rice Company which alleged that one of their brown rice products contained elevated levels of lead and failed
U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Acrylamide Case
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- On April 17, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the Council for Education and Research on Toxics’ (CERT) request to review a decision blocking new lawsuits under California’s
Chocolate Report Released Regarding Lead and Cadmium
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- As You Sow and the National Confectioners Association released a report on August 18, 2022 that determines the predominant sources of lead and cadmium in chocolate products and how best
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Prop 65 Short-Form Warning Rulemaking to Expire
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- As previously reported, in January 2021 California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) proposed limits on the use of the Proposition 65 short-form version of the safe harbor
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Preliminary Injunction Upheld on New Prop 65 Acrylamide Warning Label Suits
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9th Circ. Blocks New Prop 65 Acrylamide Warning Label Suits (subscription to Law360 required)
- As previously covered on this blog, on March 29, 2021, the U.S. District Court for
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Prop 65 Settlement on Lead in Infant Formula
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- California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, better known by its original name of Proposition 65 (Prop 65), prohibits knowingly exposing any individual to a listed chemical
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OEHHA Modifies Prop 65 Short-Form Warning Proposal
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- As previously reported, on January 8, 2021 California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) published a proposed rulemaking to limit the use of the short-form version of the
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Court Blocks New Acrylamide Lawsuits Under Prop 65
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- On March 29, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California granted the California Chamber of Commerce’s (CalChamber) preliminary injunction to temporarily bar the State
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OEHHA Proposes Amendment to Proposition 65 on Exposures to Listed Chemicals in Cooked or Heat Processed Foods
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- On August 4, 2020, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) gave notice of their proposal to amend the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (“Prop