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The bill reduces inhalant-related harms—especially for youth—by banning certain high-risk propellants and empowering the CPSC to act quickly, at the cost of new compliance, reformulation, stockpile limits, and potential price/availability impacts for manufacturers, small businesses, consumers, and local governments.
Children, youth, and young adults will face lower risk of inhalant-related poisoning because common aerosol dusters using HFC-152a or HFC-134a would be banned above the 18 mg threshold and regulators can prevent stockpiling of banned products.
Consumers and the public benefit from faster regulatory response because the CPSC can add other harmful propellants by rule, allowing the agency to address new inhalant threats without new legislation.
Manufacturers and importers (including small businesses) get clearer, consistent statutory definitions (e.g., 'aerosol duster product', 'base period', 'stockpile', 'recreational inhalation'), reducing some legal uncertainty about compliance.
Manufacturers and small-business aerosol producers will face higher compliance burdens and costs (monthly production/import tracking, recordkeeping, reformulation, and potential relabeling), increasing operating costs especially for smaller firms.
Producers could lose production flexibility or trigger enforcement when inventory exceeds the 'stockpile' threshold (>105% of base period), risking disrupted supply and added regulatory scrutiny.
Consumers may face higher prices or reduced availability of some aerosol products if manufacturers reformulate, exit the market, or pass compliance costs onto buyers.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Adds two HFC propellants as hazardous substances and bans aerosol duster products containing more than 18 mg of listed propellants per unit; lets CPSC add others and prevents stockpiling.
Official title: Regulate compressed air dusters to prevent inhalant abuse.
Introduced July 15, 2026 by Ronald Lee Wyden · Last progress July 15, 2026
Adds specific hydrofluorocarbon propellants (HFC-152a and HFC-134a) and their derivatives to the Federal Hazardous Substances Act and bans aerosol duster products that contain more than 18 mg of any listed substance. Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to stop manufacturers and importers from stockpiling banned products, allows the CPSC to add other propellants by rule, and exempts FDA-regulated drugs.