The California Ending Forever Chemicals Act (SB 903) introduced by Senator Nancy Skinner (D- Berkeley) would ban the use of toxic PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals in consumer products in California except where uses are proven essential.
The California Reducing Toxics in Packaging Act of 2024 (AB 2761 Hart), would remove two very toxic chemicals from plastic packaging.
Many people encounter toxic, cancer-causing chemicals through plastics, whether they’re aware of the health risks or not. For example, PVC is a type of plastic made with vinyl chloride, a known human carcinogen.
This victory is a long time coming and is the result of a global-wide movement of health and justice organizations, government agencies, investigative journalists and concerned people who took action to hold Johnson & Johnson (J&J) accountable for the sale of asbestos-contaminated talcum powder and its links to ovarian cancer and mesothelioma.
The PFAS-Free Cosmetic Act (AB 2771-Friedman) bans personal care and beauty products (collectively referred to as “cosmetics”) containing any (known as PFAS) from sale in California. The law prohibits the use of the entire ‘class’ of PFAS chemicals, commonly called “Forever Chemicals” because of their extreme persistence in the environment.
The Generally Recognized As Safe, or GRAS, provision, which permits common chemicals to by-pass FDA safety reviews, has become the procedural superhighway through which chemical manufacturers secretly use chemicals for food packaging and processing without FDA oversight, approval, or knowledge.
The California Safer Clothes and Textiles Act (AB 1817) would make clothing and textiles safer for all of us by banning the sale of clothes, outdoor gear, and other textiles containing toxic PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals in California.
The Cosmetic Fragrance and Flavor Ingredient Right to Know Act would require the disclosure of the secret, unlabeled, and often toxic fragrance and flavor chemical ingredients in our personal care products.
The Cosmetic Safety for Communities of Color and Professional Salon Workers Act of 2021 (Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)) would create cosmetic safety protections for women of color and professional hair, nail and beauty salon workers – 2 vulnerable populations who are most at risk of unsafe exposures because of the toxic chemicals in the products marketed to them or commonly found in their workplaces.
The Cosmetic Supply Chain Transparency Act would force supply chain transparency so that cosmetic companies can get the information they need from upstream suppliers to be able to make safer products.
