US State of Oregon Introduces Rules for Reporting Hazardous Substances in Children’s Products

The US state of Oregon has issued rules relating to the disclosure of hazardous substances contained within children’s products. Manufacturers of children’s products offered for sale between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017, and which contain a substance on the list of high priority chemicals of concern for children’s health (HPCCCHs), are required to submit a notice to the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) by January 1, 2018. Following this, manufacturers will be required to submit a notice every other year.

Unless exempted, a notice must be submitted if a product contains a HPCCCH that is:

• Intentionally added and is greater than or equal to the practical quantification limit (PQL)
• A contaminant that is equal to or greater than 100 ppm

The new rule relates to the signing into law, in August 2015, of the ‘Toxic-Free Kids Act’. The law required the OHA to establish and maintain a list of HPCCCHs that are used in the manufacture of products for children under the age of twelve. The list the OHA created contains 66 HPCCCHs and is identical to similar lists established in Washington and Vermont.

In the main, the phase two administrative rules published in December 2016 by the OHA match those of Vermont and Washington. The key provisions relate to:

• PQLs for each HPCCCH. They are identical to Vermont and Washington in nearly all cases. The exception is 2-ethylhexanoic acid (CAS 149-57-5), which has a PQL of 1.0 ppm in Oregon and Washington and 10.0 ppm in Vermont
• Exemptions from reporting or notice requirements, including businesses with less than USD 5 million in global gross sales
• Information to be reported in relation to manufacturer, HPCCCH and product category of children’s product.
• Informing the industry that the second biennial notice will cover the period of January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2020
• Reporting of product categories are defined at the ‘brick’ level of the GS1 Global Product Classification (GPC) standard

The OHA has now commenced development of phase three final rules for 2019. These will look to remove HPCCCHs from children’s products, along with other provisions of the law.

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