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Assembly Bill A6892

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires warning labels on cosmetics containing D4 or D5 siloxanes, pthalates, triclosan, parabens or synthetic chemical musks

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2009-A6892 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง395-c, Gen Bus L

2009-A6892 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires warning labels on cosmetics containing D4 or D5 siloxanes, pthalates, triclosan, parabens or synthetic chemical musks.

2009-A6892 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6892

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 13, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. MENG -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Consumer Affairs and Protection

AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
  cosmetic packaging to bear a warning label

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
395-c to read as follows:
  S 395-C.  LABELING OF COSMETICS. 1. NO PERSON,  FIRM,  OR  CORPORATION
SHALL  SELL  OR  OFFER FOR SALE ANY COSMETIC PRODUCT CONTAINING D4 OR D5
SILOXANES, PTHALATES, TRICLOSAN, PARABENS OR SYNTHETIC  CHEMICAL  MUSKS,
UNLESS THERE IS PRINTED ON THE PACKAGE IN WHICH SUCH COSMETIC IS SOLD OR
OFFERED FOR SALE, THE FOLLOWING CAUTION:
  "CAUTION--USE ONLY AS DIRECTED. EXPOSURE TO AN INGREDIENT CONTAINED IN
THIS  PRODUCT  HAS  BEEN  LINKED  TO  HEALTH PROBLEMS, INCLUDING CERTAIN
CANCERS, REPRODUCTIVE PROBLEMS AND HORMONE  DISRUPTION.    KEEP  OUT  OF
REACH OF CHILDREN."
  2.  IN  THE  CASE OF PRODUCTS INTENDED FOR USE BY CHILDREN, THE PHRASE
"EXCEPT UNDER ADULT SUPERVISION" MAY BE ADDED AT THE  END  OF  THE  LAST
SENTENCE IN THE CAUTION REQUIRED BY SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
  3. ANY VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE PUNISHABLE BY A CIVIL PENAL-
TY NOT TO EXCEED FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take effect on the one hundred eightieth  day
after it shall have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10188-02-9

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