Below is a letter template that you can print out, customize and send to your selected assembly member.

Insert Date
Insert Committee Member’s name and contact info

Dear [insert Assembly member’s name]

RE: AB 1108 -- OPPOSE

[Insert your company name] is a California-based company located in [insert your city/location/s in CA]. We produce [insert product info here]. We are writing to convey our opposition to AB 1108, which seeks to ban certain plastic toys intended for use by children. The proposed bill ignores the extensive sound science specific to these substances and their use in toys, and in doing so, wrongly targets safe and durable children’s products.

The bill targets phthalates used to make vinyl toys and other consumer products soft and durable. The primary phthalate in children’s toys (di-isononyl phthalate, DINP) has been safely used for nearly 50 years. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) conducted an extensive, peer-reviewed health risk study specific to DINP and to toys and determined that children are not at risk from plastic toys. CPSC stated in its report that "...consumers may have a high level of assurance that soft plastic products pose no risk to children." Further, the research arm of the European Union also studied DINP and concluded that exposure is “…unlikely to pose a risk for consumers (adults, infants and newborns) following inhalation, skin contact and ingestion.”

The fact is, DINP has been studied extensively and has a proven track record in producing safe, durable products.

Children are the center of our business and their safety is our number one priority. We care about their health and development. We urge you to oppose the bill as it ignores the demonstrated safety of these products. If enacted, it will result in the needless abandonment of well-tested, cost-effective, durable products that have been shown to be safe for children and this is not consistent with our commitment to producing safe products for children everywhere. We do not support any product ban that ignores sound science and accordingly, as a California-based company and a constituent, we urge you to push for fact-based decision making in California by voting NO on AB 1108.

Sincerely,

[your name And title]