(a) Manufacturers of toxic household products that contain any of the following substances shall comply with Section 108760, unless the manufacturer documents that there are no signs of toxicity at an oral dose of five grams of product per kilogram of body weight, or the product’s container, when full, contains a dose less than that which has previously been documented by the manufacturer to be nontoxic:
(1) Acetonitrile.
(2) Sodium bromate (600 mg or more).
(3) Potassium bromate (50 mg or more).
(4) Carbamates (used in insecticide formulations).
(5) Chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides and solvents (5 percent or more by weight).
(6) Cyanide.
(7) Diquat.
(8) Ethylene glycol (10 percent or more by weight).
(9) Organophosphate insecticides.
(10) Metaldehyde.
(11) Methanol (methyl alcohol)(4 percent or more by weight).
(12) Phenol (10 percent or more by weight).
(13) Pine oil, in concentrations of 20 percent or more.
(14) Strychnine formulations.
(b) Due to the lack of long-term testing results for dermal exposure of available bittering agents, manufacturers of toxic household products that contain any of the following substances in liquid formulations shall, in lieu of complying with Section 108760, package their products with child-resistant safety closures in accordance with the federal Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970 (15 U.S.C. Sec. 1471 et seq.) and regulations adopted thereunder (16 C.F.R. 1700.1 et seq.):
(1) Camphor (2.5 percent or more by weight).
(2) Diethyltoluamide (5 percent or more by weight).
(3) Ethylhexanediol (5 percent or more by weight).
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.)
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