Proposition 65

Proposition 65, also known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, is a California law that was approved by voters in November 1986. Its primary purpose is to protect California citizens from exposure to toxic chemicals by safeguarding the state’s drinking water sources. The statute prohibits businesses from knowingly discharging listed chemicals into drinking water sources.

Proposition 65 also requires that a business selling products that contain certain identified chemicals in excess of defined levels, provide a clear and reasonable warning of the potential hazard. For many listed Proposition 65 chemicals, no warning is required on products determined not to exceed “Safe Harbor” levels of exposure. Proposition 65 is administered by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), which publishes a list of chemicals known to cause cancer or birth defects. This list is periodically updated and currently contains over 800 chemicals.  The list is accessible at www.oehha.ca.gov/chemicals.

At Metropolitan Door Industries we are committed to providing safe and compliant products for our customers. Our goal is to continually work with our vendors, supply chain partners, and resellers to source responsibly and to comply with regulatory and reporting requirements, including providing product warnings to our customers as required by laws like Proposition 65.

Approved Warnings – New OEHHA warning regulations that will take effect on August 30, 2018, require more detailed product labeling.  Metropolitan Door will ensure that its products that require Proposition 65 warnings are labelled in accordance with these new regulations, including identification of specific chemicals and exposure types. Specific product labels will reflect the chemical composition of the labeled product. Below is an example of a label which may appear on Metropolitan supplied products in order to comply with this regulation:

Please note that Proposition 65 is only relevant to the State of California.  Product shipping to states other than California may receive product with the Proposition 65 warning label.  This may be disregarded.

Proposition 65 requires California to publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. This list, which must be updated at least once a year, has grown to include approximately 900 chemicals since it was first published in 1987.

• WHERE CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION ON PROPOSITION 65?
  If you have specific questions on the administration or implementation of Proposition 65, you can contact OEHHA’s Proposition 65 program at P65.Questions@oehha.ca.gov, or by phone at (916) 445-6900.For enforcement information, contact the California Attorney General’s Office at (510) 622-2160, or visit http://ag.ca.gov/prop65/.
• FOR INFORMATION ON PROPOSITION 65 WARNINGS:
  Visit the Propoistion 65 Warnings Website at:  https://www.p65warnings.ca.gov/

Feel free to reach out to Metropolitan Door if you have any questions regarding the products we’ve supplied to you or you may have on order with us.