For Regulators

Last updated: 2026-05-27 · State-regulator focus

The HQ Safety Database is the consumer-facing surface of Holistic Quality. 1,886 compounds, 959 materials, 1,287 products — with risk classifications and exposure-pathway data drawn from a chain of regulatory bodies. This page is written for regulators (state, federal, international) who want to understand how their work flows through this surface, and how to engage with the team that operates it.

The Safety Database, for regulators

What you are looking at, on this domain, is a consumer-readable secondary-source layer over a fixed set of authoritative primary sources. The compound viewer shows risk classifications; those classifications come from federal agencies (EPA, FDA, CDC), state agencies (OEHHA, CARB, state EPAs), and international bodies (IARC, ECHA, OECD). The Safety DB does not generate new toxicology; it normalizes the existing regulatory record and surfaces it where consumers can read it.

Holistic Quality publishes a public Regulator Bill of Rights describing the commitments we extend to any agency whose output we reference. Every agency engagement is logged to the public Engagement Registry. The chemistry product’s deeper architecture and provenance regime are documented on the ALETHEIA for-regulators page.

Why state regulators matter

Federal action on consumer-product chemistry is often slow, preempted, or under-resourced. State regulators frequently fill that gap — and the Safety DB surfaces their output prominently because, in practice, the state regulator is often the load-bearing voice.

California’s OEHHA (Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment) maintains the Proposition 65 list of chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity. The Prop 65 list is the most consequential consumer-chemistry list in the United States — a listing there triggers warning-label requirements that propagate nationally because companies don’t maintain California-specific SKU lines. Prop 65 listings frequently outpace federal action; OEHHA often acts on a compound years before any equivalent federal agency does. The Safety DB stamps Prop 65 status on every compound it tracks, with the listing-type breakdown (cancer / developmental / reproductive) preserved.

CARB (California Air Resources Board) maintains a consumer-product cleaner-product registry and volatile-organic-compound (VOC) limits that the federal EPA has, for years, pointed at as the de-facto national standard. State attorneys general have, in several high-profile cases, carried consumer-product enforcement (PFAS in cosmetics, lead in spices, microplastics in food contact) that federal CPSC and FDA have either lacked the bandwidth or the statutory hook to pursue. State environmental agencies — Texas TCEQ, New York DEC, Washington Department of Ecology — frequently set water-quality and ambient-air standards that diverge from federal floors; the Safety DB surfaces those where they affect classification.

Holistic Quality’s regulator-tier engagement framework applies equally to state, federal, and international qualifying bodies. The precommitment-to-free pricing flip — which makes the entire regulator surface free once a qualifying agency engages — does not distinguish by jurisdiction. State regulators are first-class.

Featured state-regulator data sources in the Safety DB

Source	Surface in the Safety DB
OEHHA / Prop 65	466 compounds stamped as Prop 65 listed (out of 1,825 processed at v3.2.0; population 2026-03-23). Listing-type preserved (cancer / developmental / reproductive). H&S Code §25249.8(a) automatic IARC-Group-1/2A listings included. Filter chip on the main viewer: Prop 65.
CARB	California Air Resources Board — VOC limits and cleaner-product registry referenced in formulation/material classifications.
State AGs	State attorneys general consumer-protection enforcement actions (PFAS, lead, microplastics) referenced in the underlying compound notes where actions have shaped classification. Coordinated via NAAG; individual offices indexed (e.g. CA / NY / TX). Engagement flows through the umbrella Engagement Registry Tier 2.
State EPAs	Texas TCEQ, New York DEC, Washington Department of Ecology and peers — referenced in water-quality and ambient-air classification notes where state floors diverge from federal.

For state-regulator consultation

Holistic Quality’s regulator-tier governance lives on the umbrella holisticquality.io domain. Six pages, all linkable and quotable:

Commitments

Regulator Bill of Rights

The full text of what every agency whose output we reference is entitled to from us.

Pricing

Regulator Pricing

Free consultation access for in-scope state, federal, and international agency staffers.

Advisory

Advisory Board

Standing seats, charter, and review of framings before they go public.

Registry

Engagement Registry

Public log of every regulator engagement — who, when, what was discussed.

Verify

Verify a Manifest

Self-serve CLI + web tool to verify the signed manifest on any published export.

Agency Directory

Every regulatory body the Holistic Quality property family references, with scope notes and contact paths.

What the Safety DB is NOT

Not a regulatory authority. The Safety DB references the regulatory record; it does not set, displace, or speak for any state or federal agency’s position.
Not a substitute for the state regulator’s own publications. Where OEHHA, CARB, a state AG, or a state EPA publishes a primary document — that document is authoritative. The Safety DB’s surfacing is a reference convenience, not a primary citation.
Not a substitute for direct contact with the regulator. Jurisdictional, scope, or interpretation questions go to the agency. The Agency Directory exists to make that contact easy, not to replace it.

Contact

For state-regulator inquiries on the Safety DB specifically (this subdomain): regulator@holisticquality.io. The same address is the canonical singular regulator inbox across the Holistic Quality property family — federal, state, and international.

Or fill out our intake form at https://holisticquality.io/regulator-intake — the form routes to the same inbox and gives you a structured audit trail of your submission.

Engagements are logged to the public Engagement Registry by default. Off-the-record consultation is available on request per the Bill of Rights.