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California 65 included in the list of hazardous substances styrene

April 22, 2016, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to add to the list of hazardous substances styrene California Proposition 65 was added because of the carcinogenic effects of styrene. California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) recommended that no significant harm styrene limits (NSRL) set at 27 micrograms per day, NSRL Representative is within the safe range, you need not state requires a warning label affixed 65.
     According to the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) requirements, if the product is exposed to harmful substances reach the level, you need to be added to the list of substances after the warning label affixed to the beginning of the year, from April 22, 2017 start, styrene exceeds a predetermined value products require warning label affixed.


The inclusion of mechanisms: AB - "authority" mechanism: (.. Title 27, Cal Code of Regs section 25306).
    Extensive use of styrene, for example, can be used for coated products, fillers, plasters, modeling clay, polymer, ink and toner, etc., as also the manufacture of plastic products and rubber products and other intermediates.




California 65 Introduction
    California Proposition 65 that is, "the 1986 Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act", issued in November 1986, its purpose is to protect the population of California and the state's drinking water, so the water does not contain known to cause cancer, substance developmental birth defects or other reproductive harm, and when such substances in the products appear truthfully inform residents, so, in theory, all products containing hazardous substances are within the scope of its control, including but not limited to the following products: Electronics products, textile products, toys, food contact materials, jewelry, home decor products.
    California list of 65 controlled substances and updated quarterly by the OEHHA introduction, first published in 1987, the latest list of substances has reached over 900 kinds. The latest list of 65 control California are below.http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/CRNR_notices/pdf_zip/042216ListingNoticeStyrene.pdf
   
California 65 latest list of substances:
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/CRNR_notices/list_changes/pdf/P65single04222016.pdf