Stakeholders Clash Over Planned SCP Listing Of Nail Products With MMA

Industry groups are opposing the California toxics department’s proposal to list nail products containing methyl methacrylate (MMA) as a “priority product” under the Safer Consumer Products (SCP) green chemistry program and faulting its planned concentration threshold for the chemical, while public-health groups support the listing and hope to tighten it. In particular, the two sides are at odds over a proposed “alternatives analysis” threshold of 1,000 parts per million (ppm), which would require companies to identify safer substitutes for MMA...