| 1 | | - | Amended IN Senate April 09, 2018 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 100Introduced by Senator LaraFebruary 12, 2018Relative to the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSCR 100, as amended, Lara. Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986: list of chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity: processed meat. The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, an initiative measure approved by the voters as Proposition 65 at the November 4, 1986, statewide general election (Proposition 65), prohibits a person, in the course of doing business, from knowingly and intentionally exposing any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without giving a specified warning, or from knowingly discharging or releasing such a chemical into water, or into or onto land and passing into any source of drinking water, except as specified. Proposition 65 requires the Governor to cause to be published a list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity within the meaning of the act, and to cause the list to be revised and republished in light of additional knowledge at least once per year. Proposition 65 requires that the list include, at a minimum, the substances identified in specified law, including substances listed as human or animal carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.This measure would require provide that the Legislature resolves that the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to fulfill its nondiscretionary duty to expeditiously review the International Agency for Research on Cancer monograph relating to processed meat and add processed meat (for consumption) for consumption to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.Digest Key Fiscal Committee: NO Bill TextWHEREAS, The Legislature affirms that in passing the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, otherwise known as Proposition 65, the people of California declared their right to be informed about exposure to chemicals or substances that cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm; andWHEREAS, Proposition 65 is intended to help Californians make informed decisions about protecting themselves from chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm; andWHEREAS, Proposition 65 requires the state to publish a list of chemicals that are known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity; and WHEREAS, The Proposition 65 list is updated at least once a year and now includes about 800 different chemicals; andWHEREAS, The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment is designated to maintain and update the Proposition 65 list; andWHEREAS, Businesses selling products to people in California must provide clear and reasonable warnings before knowingly exposing people to any chemical on the Proposition 65 list, unless the expected level of exposure would pose no significant cancer risk; andWHEREAS, Proposition 65 defined no significant risk as a level of exposure that would cause no more than one extra case of cancer in 100,000 people over a 70-year lifetime; andWHEREAS, Chemicals are added to or removed from the official Proposition 65 list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity based on Californias analysis of current scientific information, and the list is required by Proposition 65 to include, at a minimum, substances identified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of, and in subdivision (d) of, Section 6382 of the Labor Code, which includes the substances listed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as human or animal carcinogens; and information; andWHEREAS, Paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of, and subdivision (d) of, Section 6382 of the Labor Code require the substances listed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as human or animal carcinogens to be added to the Proposition 65 list; andWHEREAS, The IARC formally listed processed meat (consumption of) on its list of Agents Classified by the IARC Monographs as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1); andWHEREAS, Processed meat means meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes to enhance flavor or improve preservation, and meat includes, but is not limited to, mammalian muscle tissue, poultry, offal, and meat by products, such as blood; now, therefore, be itResolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring, That the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment shall fulfill its nondiscretionary duty pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 25249.8 of the Health and Safety Code and paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 25904 of Title 27 of the California Code of Regulations, or any successor regulation, to add processed meat (for consumption) to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity; and be it furtherWHEREAS, The IARC monograph, detailing the scientific justification for classifying processed meat as carcinogenic to humans, was released in March of 2018; now, therefore, be itResolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring, That the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment expeditiously review the IARC monograph relating to processed meat, as required by paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of, and subdivision (d) of, Section 6382 of the Labor Code, and add processed meat for consumption to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity; and be it furtherResolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution. |
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| 1 | + | CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 100Introduced by Senator LaraFebruary 12, 2018 Relative to the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSCR 100, as introduced, Lara. Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986: list of chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity: processed meat. The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, an initiative measure approved by the voters as Proposition 65 at the November 4, 1986, statewide general election (Proposition 65), prohibits a person, in the course of doing business, from knowingly and intentionally exposing any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without giving a specified warning, or from knowingly discharging or releasing such a chemical into water, or into or onto land and passing into any source of drinking water, except as specified. Proposition 65 requires the Governor to cause to be published a list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity within the meaning of the act, and to cause the list to be revised and republished in light of additional knowledge at least once per year. Proposition 65 requires that the list include, at a minimum, the substances identified in specified law, including substances listed as human or animal carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.This measure would require the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to fulfill its nondiscretionary duty to add processed meat (for consumption) to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.Digest Key Fiscal Committee: NO Bill TextWHEREAS, The Legislature affirms that in passing the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, otherwise known as Proposition 65, the people of California declared their right to be informed about exposure to chemicals or substances that cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm; andWHEREAS, Chemicals are added to or removed from the official list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity based on Californias analysis of current scientific information, and the list is required by Proposition 65 to include, at a minimum, substances identified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of, and in subdivision (d) of, Section 6382 of the Labor Code, which includes the substances listed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as human or animal carcinogens; andWHEREAS, The IARC formally listed processed meat (consumption of) on its list of Agents Classified by the IARC Monographs as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1); andWHEREAS, Processed meat means meat that has been transformed through salting, curing, fermentation, smoking, or other processes to enhance flavor or improve preservation, and meat includes, but is not limited to, mammalian muscle tissue, poultry, offal, and meat by products, such as blood; now, therefore, be itResolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly thereof concurring, That the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment shall fulfill its nondiscretionary duty pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 25249.8 of the Health and Safety Code and paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 25904 of Title 27 of the California Code of Regulations, or any successor regulation, to add processed meat (for consumption) to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity; and be it furtherResolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution. |
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