Health and Safety Code section 25249.6

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.

Source: Section 25249.6, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=25249.6. (updated Jan. 1, 1987; accessed Jul. 14, 2025).

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Location: https://california.public.law/codes/health_and_safety_code_section_25249.6

Original Source: Section 25249.6, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=25249.6. (last accessed May 12, 2025).