Product Feature
See which BOM components carry chemicals on California's Proposition 65 list, pull the documentation behind each status, and catch new listings before a product ships.
Overview
California Proposition 65 requires businesses to warn when a product exposes Californians to chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm. For electronics OEMs, that obligation lives in the components: solder, plating, plastics, and finishes can all contain listed substances. Part Risk Manager surfaces the Prop 65 status of every line item beside your lifecycle and supply chain risk, so you know where exposure exists, where a declaration is missing, and which parts pull you into warning-label territory.
Proposition 65 covers roughly 900 chemicals maintained by California's OEHHA, and the list grows every year. Tracking that against a multi-thousand-line BOM by hand is not realistic. Part Risk Manager maps each component to its Prop 65 posture in the same view as RoHS, REACH, PFAS, and TSCA, so a compliance officer can scan a full assembly and see which parts carry a listed chemical. Because the overlay sits beside your risk scores, a listed part that is also nearing end-of-life or single-sourced reads differently from a clean, widely stocked alternate.
A Prop 65 flag is only useful if you can stand behind it. Part Risk Manager lets you download the source documentation tied to a component's status, so when an auditor, customer, or plaintiff's attorney asks why a product was labeled, you have the manufacturer declaration on file. The penalty for getting this wrong is real: unlabeled products containing listed chemicals expose the company to enforcement and private litigation under the statute's bounty-hunter provisions.
The most common Prop 65 gap is not a known-bad part, it is a part with no current declaration at all. Part Risk Manager flags line items where the manufacturer has not provided a statement or where one has expired, so those parts surface as open items instead of silently passing as compliant. That turns review from an end-of-cycle scramble into a list your team can work down.
Prop 65 status is one layer of the compliance picture Part Risk Manager keeps on your BOM, alongside lifecycle forecasting, supplier risk, and PCN tracking. When a part needs full substance-level screening, you can hand off directly to Z2 Compliance Manager without re-keying part numbers, and the shared component intelligence keeps both views consistent.
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California Proposition 65 is one capability inside Z2 Part Risk Manager, the industry's largest component intelligence platform. Search and score 1B+ parts across obsolescence, compliance, sourcing, and supplier risk, all in one view.
Common Questions
Yes. Upload or sync your BOM and Part Risk Manager returns the Prop 65 posture for every line item in one view, alongside RoHS, REACH, PFAS, and TSCA, so you see which parts carry a listed chemical without checking suppliers individually.
Yes. For each component you can download the manufacturer source documentation tied to its Prop 65 status, giving your team a defensible record if an auditor, customer, or enforcement action questions a warning label.
California adds chemicals every year, so a clean part can later carry a listed substance. Part Risk Manager updates component status as regulatory changes take effect, so your BOM reflects current listings rather than a one-time snapshot.
