Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act
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The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act is a law passed in the state of California in 1986 that was designed to remove harmful chemicals from the drinking water supply.
The law requires the governor to produce a list of chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects, or any other reproductive harm, and update it every year. The current list has over 500 chemicals, including dyes, solvents, drugs, pesticides, food additives, and by-products of industrial processes.
Businesses operating in California are not allowed to discharge any of the chemicals on the list into the drinking water supply. If a business is doing so, state authorities post a warning on the facility. The business owner must demonstrate that the chemical in question poses no significant risk to public health or face certain penalties.
As a result of Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, certain common chemicals are no longer used in California. For example, trichloroethylene is no longer in correction fluids, and toluene is no longer in nail care products. Ceramic utensils and foil caps contain less lead, and air emissions of chloroform, ethylene oxide, and hexavalent chromium are lower.
