Ingredient disclosure

The label

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The two options The requirement that is not optional A toll-free number is a real obligation And the website address has to resolve Choosing between the two options Panel area, again This is separate from hazard labeling Reported date References

Whatever else the label does, it carries a toll-free number and a website address.

The two options

The manufacturer discloses on the label under one of two paragraphs: a list of intentionally added ingredients that appear on a designated list, or a list of all intentionally added ingredients, the second of which permits generic terms such as "fragrances" or "colorants".

The requirement that is not optional

The label carries "the manufacturer’s toll-free telephone number and Internet Web site address". That applies whichever disclosure option is taken, and it is the clause most often missed by a maker who has carefully built an ingredient list.

A toll-free number is a real obligation

Not a mobile, not a contact form. For a one-person operation that means buying a number and answering it, and it should be set up before the label is printed rather than after somebody calls.

And the website address has to resolve

Where the label does not carry a complete ingredient list, it carries the address of a site that provides the required information. A printed address pointing at a page that does not exist yet is a compliance failure built into fifty thousand labels.

Choosing between the two options

The full-list option is more work to produce and less work to maintain, because it does not require tracking which of your ingredients appear on a designated list as those lists change. For a small range that is usually the better trade.

Panel area, again

A complete ingredient list at a legible size is a lot of label. On a 120 mL sprayer that competes directly with the product name, and it is the reason to lay out the list before choosing the bottle.

This is separate from hazard labeling

Disclosure tells a buyer what is in the product. Hazard labeling under 16 CFR 1500.121 tells them what it can do to them, with its own placement and type size rules. A product can owe both and they are satisfied by different blocks of text.

Reported date

Secondary sources consistently give 1 January 2021 for label disclosure. That date is not quoted here from the statute text, so confirm it before relying on it.

References

California Health and Safety Code 108954, the label disclosure. The manufacturer discloses under one of two options, and in either case discloses "the manufacturer's toll-free telephone number and Internet Web site address on the designated product label"; where the label does not carry a complete ingredient list it carries the address of a website that provides the required information, and a toll-free number. codes.findlaw.com

Reported compliance dates and website content requirements, from consistent secondary sources rather than from the statute text: website disclosure from 1 January 2020 and label disclosure from 1 January 2021, with the website list carrying nonfunctional constituents present at 0.01 percent or above, a CAS number for every listed chemical and the functional purpose of each intentionally added ingredient. Confirm against the current text before printing. New York operates a separate Household Cleansing Product Information Disclosure Program.

Written from California Health and Safety Code 108952, 108954 and 108954.5 and from 16 CFR 1700.14, and from the catalog as it stood on 17 October 2026. Disclosure law in this category is state law and it moves; the dates and the website content requirements here come from secondary sources and are flagged where that is so. Confirm against the current text before a label is printed.