25249.5. Prohibition On Contaminating Drinking Water With Chemicals Known to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity.
No person in the course of doing business shall knowingly discharge or release a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or
reproductive toxicity into water or onto or into land where such chemical passes or probably will pass into any source of drinking water,
notwithstanding any other provision or authorization of law except as provided in Section 25249.9. 25249.6. Required Warning Before
Exposure To Chemicals Known to Cause Cancer Or Reproductive Toxicity.No person in the course of doing business shall knowingly and
intentionally expose any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without first giving clear
and reasonable warning to such individual, except as provided in Section 25249.10 Prohibition On Contaminating Drinking Water With Chemicals Known to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity.
No person in the course of doing business shall knowingly discharge or release a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or
reproductive toxicity into water or onto or into land where such chemical passes or probably will pass into any source of drinking water,
notwithstanding any other provision or authorization of law except as provided in Section 25249.9. 25249.6. Required Warning Before
Exposure To Chemicals Known to Cause Cancer Or Reproductive Toxicity.No person in the course of doing business shall knowingly and
intentionally expose any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without first giving clear
and reasonable warning to such individual, except as provided in Section 25249.10.
Alternet reported in late October on a study published in the journal Chemosphere, which showed that levels of pesticides in breast milk had dropped significantly over the past 40 years.
Researchers at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and Murdoch University study showed a 42-fold decrease in levels of pesticides detected in breast milk, and ties the reduction to government efforts to prohibit persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Australia, which has lead to decreased exposure over time.