United States: Manufacturers of Consumer Products Face Extensive California Green Chemistry Requirements

 In a highly-anticipated new development, California's Department of Toxic Substances Control ("DTSC") issued its draft Regulation for Safer Consumer Product Alternatives to implement its innovative Green Chemistry regulatory program. The program reflects a new approach to reduce or remove potentially toxic chemicals from a wide variety of consumer products, by regulating the design of chemical products and processes to reduce or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances. To achieve this goal, the state legislature enacted Assembly Bill 1879 and Senate Bill 509 in 2008, which together are known as the Green Chemistry Initiative... Source: Mondaq