Revised California Consumer Product Regulation Targets Personal Care
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Under new revisions to California’s Regulation for Safer Consumer Products, personal-care products would be among the first goods to undergo evaluation for hazardous chemicals, which could require reformulation of products sold in the state.
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