Children’s diapers: intentionally added ingredients: disclosure.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary specifies that the requirement for listing ingredients online is effective from January 1, 2029, not 2028 as initially stated.

Children's Diapers: Ingredient Disclosure

This law requires manufacturers to list all intentionally added ingredients in children’s diapers on their websites and product packaging, starting from January 1, 2029.

What This Bill Does

• Requires diaper makers to put a list of all intentionally added ingredients used in making the diapers on their website by January 1, 2029.
• Also requires diaper makers to include an internet address on the package that leads to more ingredient details by January 1, 2029.
• Allows state officials and local prosecutors to enforce these rules.
• Sets fines for not following the rules: up to $5,000 for the first time and up to $10,000 each time after that.
• Gives the department power to make more specific rules about how this law works.

Who It Names or Affects

• Manufacturers of children’s diapers sold in California
• People who buy or use these diapers

Terms To Know

CAS number

A unique code given to each chemical substance for easy identification.

Toxic Substances Control Account

An account in the state’s budget used by the department to control harmful substances.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if a manufacturer fails to comply with the requirements.
• It is unclear how much funding will be provided from the Toxic Substances Control Account for enforcement and implementation 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,
2029,
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 order of chemical or raw material weight,
including the chemical or raw material name, the Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) number, and all specific functions or purposes for use 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 order of chemical or raw material weight
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.
The bill would make these provisions severable.

Current Bill Text

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