California Institute Formed to Certify Safety of Consumer Products
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California’s crackdown on harmful materials in consumer products is gaining a new tool: a nonprofit institute that plans to help manufacturers come up with safer alternatives.
The new Green Products Innovation Institute will help establish standards for product safety that will be used by California regulators when they begin enforcing a state law that requires manufacturers to find safer ways to make consumer products, said Maureen Gorsen, former director of the state’s Department of Toxic Substances Control. For example, the institute will keep a database of the chemistry of certain materials, as supplied by companies who participate in sharing information.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who signed the measure into law in 2008, joined several large companies and other participants at an event at Google Inc.’s headquarters discussing the effort. Enforcement of the law will begin in 2011.
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