California Alternatives Analysis Guide Short On Details For Compliance
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The state’s guidance for conducting stage 1 alternatives analyses under its Safer Consumer Products program lacks detail on the "most basic internal process for evaluating data and other product information" to inform compliance decisions, an industry coalitions say.
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