By David Fischer at Fox & Hounds
June 13, 2016
This year is the 30th anniversary of California’s chemical warning law, Proposition 65. To mark the occasion, I published an article in the Journal of Business & Technology Law outlining the law’s biggest flaws—the lack of adequate information provided to consumers through Proposition 65 warnings and the abuse of the law by bounty hunters. My article offers alternative approaches to Proposition 65.
Since its overwhelming passage in 1986, it’s become nearly impossible in California to avoid seeing Proposition 65 warnings. Hotels, restaurants, ballparks, parking garages, office buildings, amusement parks, and pools, along with thousands of consumer products, warn Californians (and many outside California) of possible exposure to carcinogens or reproductive toxins.
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