Chipping Away at Prop 65
Litigators score a victory that has implications for the dietary supplement industry.
By Joanna Cosgrove
Online Editor
In November 1986, California voters passed The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, an initiative designed to protect California consumers from exposure to toxic chemicals. Dubbed Prop 65, the initiative zeroes in on an annually updated list of harmful carcinogens and toxicants that cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. While manufacturers stand to reap at-market benefits of Prop 65 compliance, they must first incur the expense of testing their products, developing alternatives, reducing manufacturing discharges, and providing warnings in compliance with the requirements of the Proposition. At present, scores of consumer product companies a
