Last updated: 2026-09-25 · State-regulator focus
The HQ Safety Database is the consumer-facing surface of Holistic Quality. 1,887 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.
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). 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 make to any regulatory body that uses our data. The public Engagement Registry lists every agency that uses our data under an arrangement with us, unless it asks not to be named (Bill of Rights, Article VII). Where the chemistry data comes from is documented on the ALETHEIA for-regulators page.
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 records Prop 65 status for almost 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.
Regulator access will be free once our data meets its quality bar; until then, write to regulator@holisticquality.io. State regulators are first-class.
| 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. |
The regulator pages live on the umbrella holisticquality.io domain:
What every regulatory body that uses our data is entitled to from us.
RegistryEvery agency that uses our data under an arrangement with us, by name (Bill of Rights, Article VII).
DirectoryRegulatory bodies across the Holistic Quality properties, each linked to its official website.
ResearchOur published research on holisticquality.io.
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.