Vermont Updates CHCC Children’s Product Reporting Rule

A look at the changes introduced by the publishing of the latest version of Vermont’s CHCC in Children’s Product Rule. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) September 24, 2020 - The US state of Vermont has released the latest version of its rule concerning chemicals of high concern to children (CHCC) in children’s products.

This updates contains multiple important changes, including:
• Expansion in the definition of formaldehyde – from ‘formaldehyde’ to ‘formaldehyde and substances that are intentionally added to release formaldehyde’. These include:
- 5-Bromo-5-nitro1,3-dioxane
- Bronopol
- Diazolidinyl urea
- DMDM hydantoin – also known as 1,3-bis(hydroxymethyl)-5,5-dimethylimidazolidine-2,4-dione
- Imidazolidinyl urea
- Methanol, (phenylmethoxy)
- Methenamine
- Quaternium-15
- Sodium N-(hydroxymethyl) glycinate

• Clarification that the manufacturer of a children’s product offered for sale or distribution in Vermont must submit the required notice to the Department of Health (DoH) on or before January 31, 2022, and annually thereafter
• New Section 9 ‘Reporting between Annual Reporting Periods’ – stipulates that on or before July 31 of every year, a manufacturer of a children’s product should report all products introduced for sale or distribution in the state between January 31 and July 31 of that year

Manufacturers of children’s products, or a trade association representing them, are required to make these disclosures under V.S.A. Title 18: Chapter 38A ‘Chemicals of High Concern to Children’. Under the terms of the act, they must report the presence of CHCCs to the DoH if the CHCC is in an accessible component and is either:
• Intentionally added and is greater than the practical quantification limit (PQL)
• A contaminant that is equal to or greater than 100 ppm

The latest version of the CHCC in Children’s Products Rule came into effect on September 1, 2020.

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