AB 289: Detecting harmful chemicals in the environment

Every year, tens of thousands of chemicals used in manufacturing are introduced into commerce and released into the environment, yet public health agencies have little or no information on the health effects of the vast majority of these chemicals. The state must spend its own scarce funds even to figure out how to detect them in the environment. AB 289 (Chan) would have protected public health and saved the state money by requiring that manufacturers of heavily used chemicals give the state an analytical method to detect their products in the environment and the human body.