California Prioritizes ‘Children’s Products’ In Draft Green Chemistry Plan

California toxics department officials are adding for the first time “children’s products” to their proposed Safer Consumer Products (SCP) green chemistry program’s three-year workplan covering 2021-23, finding the category compelling because children are “especially susceptible to adverse impacts from exposures to hazardous chemicals.” Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) officials are also adding for the first time a new “motor vehicle tires” category to the draft workplan because of concerns about releases of zinc and N-(1,3-dimethylbutyl)-N'-phenyl-1,4-benzenediamine (6PPD) from tires into...