MA Introduces Bill to Remove Toxic Chemicals From Consumer Products

Posted: 11/25/2013  browse the blog archive
MA Introduces Bill to Remove Toxic Chemicals From Consumer Products

Rep. Jay Kaufman and Sen. Ken Donnelly of Massachusetts have introduced a bill in the Massachusetts legislature that would create a program to identify and replace dangerous chemicals in consumer products where safer alternatives are available. 

H235/S354, or An Act for Healthy Families and Businesses, would establish a technical assistance grant program to help consumer and worker organizations find safer chemicals for use in certain products.  It would require businesses to substitute those safer alternative chemicals for toxic ones.

Read more about this bill at the Massachusetts legislature website.

The Chanler Group represents citizen enforcers who, acting in the public interest, commence actions against businesses offering products for sale in California that contain chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm without first providing the health hazard warning required by Proposition 65. Citizen enforcers bringing Proposition 65 actions in the public interest may obtain a Court Judgment imposing civil penalties, an injunction requiring reformulation of products, and/or provision of health hazard warnings. The Chanler Group has represented citizen enforcers of Proposition 65 for more than twenty years.