California Prop 65 elists BPA as a Reproductive Toxicant

Thursday, December 24, 2020

The California Workplace of Environmental Well being Hazard Evaluation (OEHHA) relisted bisphenol A (BPA) as a reproductive toxicant (developmental endpoint) beneath Proposition 65. The itemizing turned efficient December 18, 2020. Also called the Secure Consuming Water and Poisonous Enforcement Act of 1986, Proposition 65 prohibits, amongst different issues, knowingly exposing any particular person to a listed chemical with out first offering a “clear and cheap warning” to such particular person.

BPA was initially listed as a reproductive toxicant (developmental endpoint) on April 11, 2013. Nonetheless, it was delisted, efficient April 19, 2013, primarily based on an order issued by a California Superior Courtroom, which granted a movement for a preliminary injunction filed by the American Chemistry Council (ACC). That court docket ultimately denied ACC’s problem to the itemizing and ACC appealed. The choice of the Superior Courtroom, although, was stayed ending the attraction. On October 19, 2020, the California Courtroom of Attraction upheld the trial court docket’s choice. (For extra background info, see the PackagingLaw.com article, BPA Itemizing as Reproductive Toxicant Underneath Prop 65 Upheld by Courtroom.)

After the time to hunt evaluation by the California Supreme Courtroom had handed and the Courtroom of Attraction choice turned closing, OEHHA introduced that it was reinstating the developmental toxicity endpoint for the itemizing of BPA as inflicting reproductive toxicity.