60 Day Notice 2013-00790

Through the act of buying, acquiring and using the products, citizens of California are exposed to the listed chemical in homes, workplaces and elsewhere throughout California where these products are used. This includes use of the products in occupational settings, such as the sale, installation, maintenance, and replacement of the products. Exposure to consumers includes, but is not limited to, when handling the product lead comes off on the hands and is then absorbed through the skin or ingested via inhalation, hand to mouth contact, hand to food to mouth contact, or through hand to cigarette to lung contact. Exposure may continue to occur for a significant period after the initial contact. These activities cause women, pregnant women, and women of child-bearing age to be exposed directly through migration of the listed chemical from the products. People likely to be exposed are women, men, infants and children.