The WERCSmart team has been working with Regulatory Professionals in various industries to properly revise the Prop 65 questions within the WERCSmart registration process.  Currently, each registration is required to respond to Prop 65 information and this requirement will continue.  Retailers use this information in their E-Commerce operations.  WERCSmart Users are encouraged working with the Retailer to ensure compliance with the Retailer's specific policies.


Around the end of July, beginning of August, you will notice a revision to the Prop 65 questions within WERCSmart.  They will be revised to be:


  1. Does the product carry an exposure warning required by the California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (commonly known as California Proposition 65)?
    • Yes
    • No
  2. Is the need to warn triggered by:
    • A chemical or chemicals in the product, or chemicals formed during the use of the product
    • A chemical or chemicals in the packaging
    • A chemical or chemicals in both the product and the packaging
  3. How is the exposure warning transmitted?
    • By affixing it to the product or its packaging
    • By providing warning materials (labels, shelf signage, online warning language) to a retailer's authorized agent
    • Other - Please specify
  4. Is your exposure warning compliant with Proposition 65 regulations applicable to products manufacturer
    • Prior to August 30, 2018
    • On or after August 30, 2018
    • Both (a) and (b) because instances of this product manufactured before, on, and after August 30, 2018 are in the market.
  5. If the product carries a safe-harbor short-form warning, indicate which of the following is provided:
    • WARNING: Cancer
    • WARNING: Reproductive Harm
    • WARNING: Cancer and Reproductive Harm
  6. If the product carries a safe-harbor long-form warning, indicate which of the following is used and enter the names of the Proposition 65 chemicals included in the warning:
    • This product can expose you to chemicals including [name of one or more chemicals], which is[are] known to the State of California to cause cancer.
      • Enter the names of one or more listed carcinogens which are the subject of this warning: [Text]
    • This product can expose you to chemicals including [name of one or more chemicals] which is[are] known to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm.
      • Enter the names of one or more listed reproductive or developmental toxicants which are the subject of this warning: [Text]
    • This product can expose you to chemicals including [name of one or more chemicals] which is[are] known to the State of California to cause cancer, and [name of one or more chemicals] which is[are] known to the State of California to cause to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm.
      • Enter the names of one or more listed carcinogens which are the subject of this warning:  [Text]
      • Enter the names of one or more listed reproductive or developmental toxicants which are the subject of this warning:  [Text]
    • This product can expose you to chemicals including [name of one or more chemicals], which is[are] known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. 
      • Enter the names of one more more listed chemicals that are both carcinogens and reproductive or developmental toxicants which are the subject of this warning:  [Text]
  7. If the product carries a custom warning, please provide the exact text that is being used:
    • [Text]


For information about the regulation, with regard to responding to Question 3 above, click here.


Warning information within the regulation is available clicking here.


Customers who have registrations that have already been submitted, and the Prop 65 questions are already answered, may experience little to no impact with this change.  It is dependent on how the questions were responded to within the original registration.


If you responded to the original first question as "No", your registration will not require updating.  An answer to the historical first question and the new question is the same value and no updates or recertification will be necessary.  As a reminder, the original question is[was]:  Product, including container and/or packaging, contains a chemical on California's Prop 65 list.


Similarly, if you responded to the first question on an existing registration with "Yes" and your response to the second question was "No", the values are the same and no updates or recertification of your registration will be necessary.  The original second question is[was]:  Prop 65 Warning is Required.


Be sure to watch your WERCSmart notification area for timing on when these new questions for California's Proposition 65 data will be going into effect within the WERCSmart registration process.