The California Safer Food Packaging & Cookware Act of 2021 (AB 1200 – Ting), was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom October 5, 2021, cosponsored by BCPP. The law bans paper-based food packaging containing PFAS; requires cookware manufacturers to disclose the presence of hazardous chemicals; and prohibits misleading advertising on cookware packaging.
Talc-based baby powder is linked to ovarian cancer. J&J knows, yet it refuses to stop pushing this dangerous product to Black and Brown women around the world. BCPP and 200+ global organizations are demanding J&J stop selling its #toxictalc baby powder. #JNJKnew
In 2014, BCPP joined an official Food Additive Petition, brought by Natural Resources Defense Council and 6 other NGOs, to ban the use of perchlorate in the processing and packaging of dry foodstuffs. Perchlorate, a hormone disrupting chemical used in rocket fuel and fireworks, is harmful to human health.
BCPP cosponsored the California Toxic-Free Cosmetic Act (AB495 – Muratsuchi), which bans more than a dozen toxic chemicals from beauty and personal care products sold in California, in partnership with CalPIRG and the Environmental Working Group. Signed into law September 30, 2020, the ban goes into full effect in 2025.
Though breast cancer is very uncommon in males compared to females. The National Cancer Institute reports male breast cancer incidence of 1.2 per 100,000.
BCPP cosponsored the California Cosmetic Fragrance and Flavor Ingredient Right to Know Act of 2019 (SB 312 – Leyva), signed into law in October of 2020, to require cosmetics companies to publicly disclose toxic fragrance and flavor ingredients present in beauty and personal care products sold in the state. This is the first law passed in the U.S. to require the disclosure of fragrance or flavor ingredients in cosmetics and professional salon products, due to increasing evidence that hazardous fragrance and flavor ingredients harm our health and the environment.
African American women face both disproportionate exposure to breast carcinogens and the highest risk of serious health impacts from the disease.
BCPP’s Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is working to pass meaningful, health-protective federal cosmetic safety reform.
California’s Safe Cosmetics Program requires companies to report any beauty or personal care product sold in California containing carcinogens or reproductive toxicants.
The California Professional Cosmetics Labeling Requirements Act (AB 2775) co-sponsored by BCPP requires an ingredients list on professional cosmetic product labels. Signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, this bill gives nail, hair and beauty salon workers vital information about the chemicals they are exposed to day in and day out.
