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Ingredient disclosure

What the statute covers

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The definition turns on use, not on chemistry, which by now should be a familiar shape.

The definition

A designated product is "a finished product that is an air care product, automotive product, general cleaning product, or a polish or floor maintenance product used primarily for janitorial, domestic, or institutional cleaning purposes".

A laundry product is a general cleaning product

Used primarily for domestic cleaning purposes. There is no useful argument that a detergent, a softener or a stain treatment sits outside that, and a small maker should not spend time looking for one.

What an intentionally added ingredient is

"A chemical that a manufacturer has intentionally added to a designated product and that has a functional or technical effect in the designated product." Functional or technical effect is broad: a thickener, a preservative and a pH adjuster all qualify.

What a nonfunctional constituent is

An incidental component of an intentionally added ingredient, a breakdown product of one, or a byproduct of manufacturing, with no functional or technical effect, drawn from a list of 34 named chemicals. These are the things you did not add and may still have to report.

Which means you need to ask your suppliers

You know what you added. You do not necessarily know what came in with it. A disclosure regime that reaches incidental components is a regime that reaches up your supply chain, and the time to ask is before the first batch rather than when the list is due.

Fragrance is defined too

"Any intentionally added substance or complex mixture of aroma chemicals, natural essential oils, and other functional ingredient or ingredients for which the sole purpose is to impart an odor or scent, or to counteract an odor." Note that counteracting an odor is included, which catches masking agents.

Finished product, not ingredient

The obligation is on the finished designated product. If you blend and sell, it is yours. If you supply a base to somebody else who finishes and sells it, the obligation follows the finished product.

And it is state law

California has one scheme and New York runs a separate disclosure program of its own. Other states can add more. This is the part of the property most likely to have moved since it was written, and it is worth checking rather than assuming.

References

California Health and Safety Code 108952, the definitions in the Cleaning Product Right to Know Act of 2017. A "designated product" is "a finished product that is an air care product, automotive product, general cleaning product, or a polish or floor maintenance product used primarily for janitorial, domestic, or institutional cleaning purposes". An "intentionally added ingredient" is "a chemical that a manufacturer has intentionally added to a designated product and that has a functional or technical effect in the designated product". 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.