By Judah Prero (November 6, 2017, 12:14 PM EST) -- On Oct. 15, 2017, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Cleaning Product Right to Know Act of 2017 into law. This new law will require online ingredient listing and on-package disclosure of ingredients by manufacturers of cleaning products. The goal of this law was to allow for users of cleaning products to learn which chemicals are contained therein. A secondary, but articulated, goal was to force manufacturers to substitute "dangerous chemicals" for safer ones, and the motivation for such would be the consumer pressure sparked by ingredient disclosure. This new California law is just one of the latest actions taken by a state to somehow regulate the use of chemicals. By no means is state action unique or unusual....
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