Name: Breakout 16: "Warning! This product will …" Recommendations from experts for dealing with Proposition 65
Start: 2025-02-18T11:30:00-0500
End: 2025-02-18T12:20:00-0500

Tuesday February 18, 2025 11:30am - 12:20pm EST

Grand Cypress A-C

Despite only applying to products sold in California, the testing and labeling requirements of Proposition 65 impact consumer products sold world-wide. This session will be aimed at providing helpful information to individuals new to Prop65 as well to those who deal with it on a regular basis. We will review the chemicals that are commonly named in suits across different product categories, discuss ways to prioritize your product portfolio for evaluation, and consider the limitations of limited chemical testing and use of settlement values adopted for different products. We will also provide an update on new developments such as the increasing number of lawsuits involving PFAS and the proposed plans to alter the nature of the short form warning that is currently used by many companies.

Moderators

Susan Kirsch

Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA)

Susan works across RILA’s many regulatory and compliance areas, including consumer products safety, and plays a key role in RILA’s advocacy and engagement with stakeholders and regulators at the federal and state levels. Before joining RILA in 2020, she served as a Government... Read More →

Speakers

Thomas Lewandowski

Principal and Toxicologist, Gradient

Dr. Tom Lewandowski is a toxicologist and chemist working in Gradient’s Seattle, Washington office. He has over 30 years of experience in product safety assessment, including evaluating the potential of various types of consumer products to cause adverse effects when in contact... Read More →