California Code of Regulations › Title 27 - Environmental Protection › Division 4 - Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment › Chapter 1 - Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 › Article 6 - Clear and Reasonable Warnings › Subarticle 1 - General › Section 25600.1 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
					 "Affected area" means the area in which an exposure to a listed chemical can
					 occur at a level that requires a warning.
(b) "Authorized agent" means the person or
					 entity, including a monitored electronic mailbox or post office box, designated
					 by a retail seller to receive notices from product manufacturers, producers,
					 packagers, importers, suppliers, and distributors under this article.
(c) "Consumer information" includes warnings,
					 directions for use, ingredient lists, and nutritional information. "Consumer
					 information" does not include the brand name, product name, company name,
					 location of manufacture, or product advertising.
(d) "Consumer product" means any article, or
					 component part thereof, including food, that is produced, distributed, or sold
					 for the personal use, consumption or enjoyment of a consumer.
(e) "Consumer product exposure" means an
					 exposure that results from a person's acquisition, purchase, storage,
					 consumption, or any reasonably foreseeable use of a consumer product, including
					 consumption of a food.
(f)
					 "Environmental exposure" means an exposure that occurs as the result of contact
					 with an environmental source, such as ambient air, indoor air, drinking water,
					 standing water, running water, soil, vegetation, or manmade or natural
					 substances or objects, through inhalation, ingestion, or skin or other contact
					 with the body. All exposures that are not consumer product exposures or
					 occupational exposures are environmental exposures.
(g) "Food" has the same meaning as defined in
					 Health and Safety Code Section
					 109935
					 and includes "dietary supplements" as defined in California Code of
					 Regulations, title 17, section
					 10200.
(h) "Knowingly" has the same meaning as
					 defined in Article 1, section
					 25102(n).
(i) "Label" means a display of written,
					 printed or graphic material that is printed on or affixed to a product or its
					 immediate container or wrapper.
(j)
					 "Labeling" means any written, printed, graphic, or electronically provided
					 communication that accompanies a product, such as a package insert.
(k) "Occupational exposure" means an exposure
					 to any employee at his or her place of employment.
(l) "Retail seller" means a person or
					 business that sells or otherwise provides consumer products directly to
					 consumers by any means, including via the internet. For purposes of this
					 article, a retail seller includes those functions of a business involved in the
					 sale of consumer products, including foods, directly to consumers, even if the
					 business or facility is primarily devoted to non-retail activities.
(m) "Sign" means a physical presentation of
					 written, printed, graphic, or electronically provided communication, including
					 shelf signs, other than a label or labeling, posted in a conspicuous manner
					 that is associated with the exposure for which the warning is being provided
					 under the Act and is clearly visible under all lighting conditions normally
					 encountered during business hours and under such conditions as to make it
					 likely to be seen, read, and understood by an ordinary person.
1. New
						section filed 8-30-2016; operative 8-30-2018 pursuant to Government Code
						section
						11343.4(b)(2)
						(Register 2016, No. 36).
2. Amendment of subsections (b), (i), (j)
						and (m) filed 11-20-2017; operative 8-30-2018 pursuant to Government Code
						section
						11343.4(b)(2)
						(Register 2017, No. 47).
3. Change without regulatory effect
						amending section heading filed 8-30-2018 pursuant to section
						100, title 1, California Code of
						Regulations (Register 2018, No. 35).
Note: Authority cited: Section
						  25249.12,
						  Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections
						  25249.6
						  and
						  25249.11,
						  Health and Safety Code.