By SEMA Washington, D.C., Staff
SEMA-opposed legislation that would have required manufacturers of designated consumer products, including automotive products, to post ingredients on the product label and online on the manufacturer’s website was defeated in the California State Assembly. Under the law, ingredients in automotive products are not required to be listed on product labels.
As originally drafted, the bill would have made it a crime to manufacture, distribute and sell automotive products after January 1, 2017, that did not have a label listing ingredients and a manufacturer webpage address at which product ingredient information could also be found. The bill required only the 20 most prevalent ingredients to be listed on the label, but required all ingredients to be listed on the company’s website. The measure applied to all chemically formulated products for maintaining the appearance of a vehicle, including products for washing, waxing, polishing, cleaning or treating the exterior or interior surfaces of a vehicle, but excluding automotive paint and paint repair products.
SEMA believes that A.B. 708 was an unnecessary burden on sellers of automotive products because the state’s Proposition 65 already requires warnings be included on certain consumer products containing more than trace amounts of harmful chemicals.
For details, contact Steve McDonald at stevem@sema.org.