Top Legal Challenges for the Consumer Products Industry in 2025 -
With 2025 underway, the AFS Consumer Products team highlights some of the most pressing legal issues facing the consumer products industry this year....more
What Food Product Companies Need to Know About the New Proposition 65 Warning Requirements -
On December 6, 2024, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), the lead agency that implements Proposition...more
Controversial Prop 65 Warning Labels About Toxic Chemicals are Effective, Study Says -
For nearly 40 years, a controversial California law has required companies to place warning labels on their products alerting...more
Safe Harbor Warnings for Acrylamide Exposure From Food -
The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has amended Title 27, California Code of Regulations 25607.2(b), to provide an additional safe harbor...more
Expanding on the peer review protections established in Bonni v. St. Joseph Health System, the California Court of Appeal in Dignity Health v. Mounts held that a wide array of medical staff communications regarding peer...more
California AG Will Not Seek Rehearing Of Bar On Prop. 65 Glyphosate Warning -
California Attorney General (AG) Rob Bonta (D) has declined to ask a federal appellate court to rehear a panel ruling that permanently blocked...more
Third Time’s A Charm: California Re-Introduces Proposed Changes to Proposition 65’s Warnings and Safe Harbor Requirements -
On October 27, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), the lead...more
California Bans Several FDA-Authorized Food Additives; New York May Soon Follow -
On October 7, California Governor Gavin Newson signed into law AB-418, the California Food Safety Act, which completely bans, on safety...more
California health care employers that apply mandatory vaccination policies objectively can take great comfort in a recent California Court of Appeal decision. In Hodges v. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the court found...more
CEH Takes Legal Action Against Five Metal Plating Facilities Discharging High Levels of PFAS Chemicals into the Environment in LA County -
Cision PR Newswire -
LOS ANGELES, June 12, 2023 - Nonprofit organization the...more
PFAS-Containing Consumer Products Under Attack in California -
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are present in a variety of consumer products. PFAS have been increasingly targeted in laws and regulations and...more
OEHHA Proposes Prop. 65 Cancer Listings For Solvent, Sealant Chemicals -
California’s health hazard office is proposing to list three chemicals as carcinogens under the state’s Proposition 65 toxic warning label law,...more
FDA joins industry groups in opposing Prop 65 cancer listing for BPA -
Chemical Watch -
The US Food and Drug Administration has joined a pair of industry trade groups in opposing the potential listing of bisphenol A as...more
Cannabis Company Shuts Down Unpermitted Diesel Generators 2 Years Later -
SFGATE -
Cannery residents paired with environmental advocacy groups Center for Environmental Health and the Environmental Democracy Project to...more
In response to multiple requests from California hospital industry members, the California Court of Appeal ordered publication of its decision in Bonni v. St. Joseph Health System et al. This important decision is a victory...more
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In Khoiny v. Dignity Health, the California Court of Appeal held that hospital residency programs are primarily employment programs and medical residents are primarily employees. Therefore, courts should not give special...more
California Proposition 65: OEHHA Publishes Second Modification to Proposed Rules to Short-Form Warnings -
The National Law Review -
On April 5, 2022, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment...more
In Scheer v. Regents of the University of California, the Second District Court of Appeal held that the McDonnell-Douglas burden-shifting framework applies to claims asserted pursuant to Health & Safety Code Section 1278.5....more
As we previously reported, in 2019, the California Chamber of Commerce filed suit against the State of California in federal district court, requesting that the State and private enforcers be enjoined from requiring...more
Identifying Acrylamide Exposure Risks to Protect Residents of California -
California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced it proposed adding a new subsection to Article 6 of Title 27 of...more
Proposed Restrictions on Prop 65 Short-Form Warnings EHS Daily Advisor Changes to California’s Proposition 65 (Prop 65) short-form warning label regulations are expected soon. Once adopted, impacted industry will have one...more
Labeling Laments: Packaging and Label Regulations Are a Major Challenge to the Expanding Cannabis Industry -
East Bay Express -
When California cannabis companies prepare to go to market with a new product, they often...more
In Natarajan v. Dignity Health, the Supreme Court rejected a physician’s challenge to a peer review hearing officer based on alleged financial bias. In doing so, the Court gave hospitals helpful and long-needed guidance...more
On July 29, 2021, the California Supreme Court issued a major anti-SLAPP decision in Bonni v. St. Joseph Health System et al. The decision is both encouraging and disappointing for California medical staffs and the hospitals...more
Have you shopped for jewelry, cosmetics, furniture, or exercise equipment recently? If so, you have most likely come across a Proposition 65 warning sticker. If you are unsure of whether the warning label should keep you from...more