Required Warning Before Exposure To Chemicals Known to Cause Cancer Or Reproductive Toxicity. No person in the course of doing business shall knowingly and intentionally expose any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without first giving clear and reasonable warning to such individual, except as provided in Section 25249.10.
Cal. Health & Safety Code § 25249.6
Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986
Applied in 31 court decisions — leading case National Electrical Manufacturers Ass'n v. Sorrell (2001)
Most recently applied in B&G Foods North America, Inc. v. Kim Embry (March 2022)
Added November 4, 1986, by initiative Proposition 65
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.