Children’s diapers: intentionally added ingredients: disclosure.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary does not provide specific details on what happens if a company fails to comply with the requirements, leaving some uncertainty in this area.

Children's Diapers: Ingredient Disclosure

This law requires manufacturers to list all intentionally added ingredients in children's diapers on their websites and product pages by January 1, 2028, and later on the packaging of the diapers.

What This Bill Does

• Requires diaper makers to put a list of all ingredients they add to children’s diapers on their website by January 1, 2028.
• By January 1, 2029, diaper makers must also include an internet address on the package that leads to more information about the ingredients in the diapers.
• Allows state officials and local prosecutors to enforce this rule.
• Sets fines for companies that do not follow these rules: up to $5,000 for the first time and up to $10,000 each time after that.
• Gives the department permission to make more specific rules about how to follow this law.

Who It Names or Affects

• Manufacturers of children’s diapers sold in California
• Parents buying children's diapers online or at stores

Terms To Know

CAS number

A unique code given to each chemical substance by the Chemical Abstracts Service, used for identification.

Toxic Substances Control Account

An account in California's budget that holds money for controlling toxic substances and enforcing related laws.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if a company fails to comply with the requirements.
• It is unclear how much funding will be available from the Toxic Substances Control Account for enforcement of this law.

Official Summary Text

AB 1901, as amended, Berman.
Children’s diapers: intentionally added ingredients: disclosure.
Existing law prohibits juvenile products, textile articles, and food packaging that contain specified levels of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from being distributed, sold, or offered for sale in the state, as provided.
Existing law establishes the Toxic Substances Control Account in the General Fund to be administered by the Director of Toxic Substances Control.
This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2028, the manufacturer of any children’s diapers sold, distributed, or manufactured in the state to display on a web page on its internet website, and on the product details page on any internet website where the children’s diapers are sold, a list of all of the
children’s diaper’s
intentionally added ingredients, as defined,
in the children’s diapers,
including the chemical or raw material name,
the Chemical Abstract Service (CAS)
number for each intentionally added ingredient,
number,
and all specific functions or purposes for use
of the intentionally added ingredients
in the children’s diapers. The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2029, all children’s diapers sold, distributed, or manufactured in the state to include on the outermost package an internet
website address for a web page that provides all of that information and a list of all of the intentionally added ingredients in the children’s diapers.
The bill would authorize the department, the Attorney General, a city attorney, county counsel, or district attorney to enforce these requirements. The bill would require a person who violates these requirements to be liable for an administrative or civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for the first violation and not to exceed $10,000 for each subsequent violation, as provided. The bill would authorize the department to adopt regulations to implement, enforce, interpret, or make specific these requirements. The bill would authorize, upon appropriation by the Legislature, funds in the Toxic Substances Control Account to be used by the department to implement these requirements. The bill would require penalties collected to be deposited in the Toxic Substances Control Account.
The bill would prohibit the sale, distribution, or manufacture of children’s diapers in the state that do not comply with these requirements.

Current Bill Text

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