Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act

State of California Health and Welfare Agency Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. 

The chemical should not contain any chemicals that are a carcinogen or that are known to cause reproductive toxicity. Carcinogens are defined as those chemicals listed in the current edition of the Annual Report on Carcinogens, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Toxicology Program. Chemicals known to cause reproductive toxicity, for example, are defined as those hsted by the state of California under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Cah-fomia Code of Regulations, Title 22, Division 2, Subdivision 1, Chapter 3, Sections 1200, et seq.)... 

California s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65) restricts the use and disposal of antimony, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, lead, and nickel compounds, without specifying limits. 

California Proposition 65 is the State s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. The purpose of the regulation is to prevent contamination of drinking water and to advise the public of any chemicals in products that are known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.The governor of California is required to revise and republish the list of chemicals at least once a year. A Scientific Advisory Panel recommends additions to the list periodically. These additions are reviewed at a public hearing, may be incorporated in the official list, and go into... 

Chemicals Known to the State to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, State of California Environmental Protection Agency, 2005, p.65. 

Proposition 65. The formal designation of Proposition 65 is the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. This act was passed overwhelmingly by California s voters on November 4, 1986. As of this writing (1996), California is the only state that has adopted this type of regulation. The principal objectives of Proposition 65 are to protect the State s drinking water sources from toxic contamination and to warn the public of possible carcinogenic and reproductive hazards associated with certain identified chemicals. 

California voters in 1986 approved an initiative that reflected concerns about exposures to toxic chemicals via the environment, residence, and workplace. That initiative became the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, and is better known by its original name of Proposition 65. Proposition 65 requires the State to publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer or birth defects or other reproductive harm. The list must be updated at least once a year, and includes over 700 chemicals. 

States like California that have severe water shortage problems have taken drastic steps to protect their ground- and surface water. In California, Proposition 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, requires the yearly update of a list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm. Discharge of these chemicals into any water that might become a drinking water supply is prohibited, and violation of this prohibition may incur financial penalties. 

STATE OF CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH HAZARD ASSESSMENT SAFE DRINKING WATER AND TOXIC ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 1986 CHEMICALS KNOWN TO THE STATE TO CAUSE CANCER OR REPRODUCTIVE... 

California Proposition 65. Formally known as the California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, that establishes two lists, one of which contains compounds known to the state to cause cancer, while the other list contains compounds known to be fetotoxic. 

California s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, more commonly known as Proposition 65, requires products that contain chemicals identified as carcinogens or toxic to development or reproduction by the state of California s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to be labeled as such in the state. DEHP is labeled as a carcinogen and male developmental toxicant. DINP is recognized as a carcinogen, and DBP, DIDP, BBzP, and DnHP are developmental toxicants under this act (State of California Environmental Protection Agency Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment 1986). This rule can provide an incentive for companies to reformulate products with safer alternatives. 

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