California Proposition 65 Warning Notice

The warning is a mandate from the state of California known as the “California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement act of 1986,” or “Proposition 65.” It is a broad law that applies to any company operating in California, selling products in California, or manufacturing products that may be sold or brought into California. The law requires companies to include the warning when a product contains certain chemicals designated by the State at certain levels even if it does not make a product unsafe. The purpose of Proposition 65 is to ensure that people are informed about exposure to these chemicals. It is considered a “right-to-know” statute.

Proposition 65 mandates that the Governor of California maintain and publish a list of chemicals that are known to cause cancer, birth defects and/or other reproductive harm. The list, which must be updated annually, includes a wide variety of naturally occurring and synthetic chemicals that can be found in a wide variety of products and items such as dyes, solvents, drugs, food additives, pesticides and more. Currently, more than 900 chemicals are included under Proposition 65.

Proposition 65 is a statute designed to keep California residents informed of the presence of certain listed chemicals. In keeping with the "right-to-know" purposes of the statute, we have opted to keep our customers informed about possible exposure to chemicals and to provide the warning on our product packaging.

Because PDC manufactures and sells products nationwide and internationally, the company has elected to place the warning inside the packaging of all our products distributed domestically.

http://oehha.ca.gov/prop65/background/p65plain.html

http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/whats_new/index.html