In 2022, the California Legislature handed Meeting Invoice 1894, the “Built-in Hashish Vaporizer: Packaging, Labeling, Promoting and Advertising” invoice. Beginning July 1, 2024, this regulation will add new necessities for the packaging, labeling, promoting or advertising of hashish cartridges and built-in hashish vaporizers.
There are two elements to the brand new necessities.
- Promoting and advertising supplies for hashish cartridges or built-in hashish vaporizers are required to show a particular message about how you can correctly eliminate a hashish cartridge or built-in hashish vaporizer.
- The packaging and labeling of hashish cartridges and built-in hashish vaporizers can now not embody statements that point out or indicate that the gadgets are disposable, might be thrown within the trash, or added to recycling streams.
New necessities for promoting and advertising, from 1 July 2024.
Licensees should clearly show the next messages in a transparent and legible method when promoting and advertising hashish cartridges or built-in hashish vaporizers.
Message required for promoting and advertising of:
- Hashish Cartridges: “A used hashish cartridge have to be correctly disposed of as hazardous waste at a family hazardous waste facility or different permitted facility.”
- Built-in Hashish Vaporizers: “An empty built-in hashish vaporizer have to be correctly disposed of as hazardous waste at a family hazardous waste assortment facility or different permitted facility.”
New necessities for packaging and labeling, from July 1, 2024. Licensees should not bundle or label hashish cartridges or built-in hashish vaporizers in a means that signifies or implies that it’s disposable, might be thrown away within the trash or added to the recycling streams.
Licensees should not required so as to add new language or messaging to packaging or labels for hashish cartridges or built-in hashish vaporizers.
What ought to licensees do if they’ve hashish cartridges and built-in hashish vaporizers that don’t meet the necessities of AB 1894?
Licensees in possession of hashish cartridges or built-in hashish vaporizers which are packaged or labeled in a fashion that doesn’t meet the necessities of AB 1894 ought to transfer the present merchandise by way of and out of the provision chain as rapidly as doable. DCC plans to initially prioritize training and outreach to help elevated compliance.
You want extra data or have questions.
For extra data on packaging, labeling, promoting and advertising necessities, the DCC recommends reviewing the data linked beneath:
If in case you have questions, please e-mail [email protected] or name 1-844-61-CA-DCC (1-844-612-2322).
