California DTSC Eyeing Residual MMA In Nail Products, While NGOs Call For Wider Look At Acrylates

Coty, Inc. says methyl methacrylate detected in salon air is “usually the result of illicit use of currently illegal MMA liquid monomer,” but California’s DTSC is not so sure. The California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative says acrylates used to replace MMA, or otherwise found in nail products, pose concerns of their own that warrant investigation under the state's Safer Consumer Products regulation.