http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/ Script: Safer Consumer Products Regulation Event NATS of Event COVERED SOT OF DEBBIE -- 11:42:11 to 11:42:17 ...the safer consumer product regulations are finally going into effect. VO: The Department of Toxic Substances Control's land mark Safer Consumer Products Regulation aims to remove toxic chemicals from California's consumer goods. DTSC wants manufacturers to ask a simple question: Are these toxic chemicals necessary? SOT of Debbie Raphael, DTSC Director -- 11:45:58 to 11:46:13 It becomes critically important to ask the question: are those chemicals really necessary in those products? Can we design those products and actually have those same products without the toxic chemicals inside of them? NATS of event -- 12:20:53 to 12:21:09 This marks the culmination of a strong effort on the part industry, consumer groups, environmental organizations and government that came together to build a new approach that will help protect consumers and propel California's economy forward. VO: A press event was held at Richmond based, rubber stamp maker: Hero Arts, to mark the adoption of the Safer Consumer products Regulation. SOT of Arron Levinthall, Hero Arts -- 11:59:49 to 11:59:55 Really it gives us an idea of what to shoot for and that gives us the opportunity to open up innovation. VO: Hero Art's received a GEELA award in 2011 for its green business practices...it's the State of California's highest environmental honor. SOT of Arron Levinthall, CEO Hero Arts -- 12:00:23 to 12:00:39 We use sustainable wood. We used only the best rubber that was biodegradable...but we had to use chemicals to use glues and adhesives and slowly we looked at processes that would allow us really remove those chemicals from the process that we had. VO: Removing toxic chemicals from their process created a safer work environment for their employees as well as a toxic free product for their customers. NAT of ___ from Event -- 12:38:44 to 12:39:04 I know as a pregnant woman that my body is the first environment that my child and my children will ever inhabit...and that environment is polluted...and it's a sad fact but it's true...and it's mostly because of the chemicals found in products that I buy everyday on the supermarket store shelves. SOT of -- 11:56:49 to 11:57:05 This is such an important program and it's such a model for the nation because it is such a different way of doing things. Other states have looked at this as well but ours is the first state that's really looking at all consumer products and not just children's products and I think that's so important. VO: DTSC has posted a list of candidate chemicals on its website that will be used to identify priority products in the future. SOT of Debbie -- 11:48:22 to 11:48:45 It's not possible to answer the question: is lead necessary? Is formaldehyde necessary? It's in what...in what type of use. And that use we call a priority product. And so the next phase of this regulation that will happen early in 2014, early next year, will be to announce the first set of priority products.

• published: 10 Oct 2013
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