FPA Signs CA AB 1290 Assembly Floor Alert

Food producers, agricultural entities, restaurants, manufacturers of household products, electronics, toys, and other leading California employers all ask you to vote NO on AB 1290. AB 1290 is another packaging ban less than a year after SB 54 (Allen) was passed which set the world’s most aggressive source reduction and recycling mandates on this very plastic packaging. Banned packaging is necessary. If it wasn’t, the bill would not have been recently amended to exempt all medical products, pharmaceuticals, veterinary medicines, and pesticide packaging. These exemptions demonstrate this packaging is necessary and has a wide variety of applications, including those not exempted, such as packaging that extends the shelf life of food, vitamins, and over the counter (OTC) medicines.