Notice extending the public comment period on the Hazard Identification materials for Nitrite in Combination with Amines or Amides

Includes changes in critical study and endpoint selection, and updated dose-response analysis and exposure estimates.  These changes resulted in the revision of the antimony PHG to 1 ppb.

The updated PHGs are 0.7 parts per billion (ppb) for carbofuran, 6 ppb for diquat, 0.3 ppb for endrin, 166 ppb for picloram, and 42 ppb for thiobencarb, all based on non-cancer effects.

Presentations from the 2016 Children’s Environmental Health Symposium exploring "New Findings from California”.

Courses are available on-line or on-site. Each course is approximately one hour, and continuing education credits may be provided.  Courses are available in English and Spanish.

The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) intends to list perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) as known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986.

Proposal to readopt an emergency regulation to allow temporary use of a standard point-of-sale warning message for BPA exposures from canned and bottled foods and beverages.

Webcast and public forum - Identifying and evaluating alternative materials – the case of BPA-free can linings”

Draft screening methodology that can be used to help identify California communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution.

Public input key for update to the first-in-the-nation statewide environmental health screening tool