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Safer Products for Washington public comment

Cycle 2 Draft Priority Products Report

Nov. 1, 2024, 12 a.m. - Dec. 31, 2024, 11:59 p.m.

We invite you to comment on our latest draft report for Cycle 2.

The Draft Identification of Priority Products Report to the Legislature identifies draft priority consumer products for Cycle 2 Phase 2 of Safer Products for Washington. The Draft Technical Supporting Documentation for Priority Products Cycle 2 Phase 2 is also published and available for public comment.

How to submit comments

This public comment period opens Nov. 1, 2024 at 12 a.m. and closes Dec. 31, 2024 at 11:59 p.m.

Submit your comments in the following ways:

When the public comment period ends, we will consider all comments and may change the report based on them. The final report will be published by June 1, 2025.

Background

Safer Products for Washington establishes a process where we designate priority chemicals, identify products that contain those chemicals, determine needed regulatory actions, and adopt rules to implement regulatory actions. Before we can restrict the use of a chemical in an identified consumer product, the law requires that safer alternatives are feasible and available.

In May 2024, we published our Identification of Priority Chemicals Report to the Legislature: Cycle 2 Implementation Phase 1. This report identified seven chemical classes as priority chemicals for Cycle 2:

  • Cadmium and cadmium compounds.
  • Lead and lead compounds.
  • Organobromine and/or organochlorine substances.
  • Benzene, ethyl benzene, toluene, and xylene substances (BTEX).
  • Formaldehyde and formaldehyde releasers.
  • Cyclic volatile methylsiloxanes (cVMS).
  • 6PPD.

We also published two additional Cycle 2 resources to support the report to the Legislature:

For more information:

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Kim Morley
Washington Department of Ecology, HWTR Program
P.O. Box 47600
Olympia, WA 98504-7600
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Kim Morley
Safer Products for Washington Project Manager
SaferProductsWA@ecy.wa.gov
360-701-2398
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