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Amendments to Text of Regulations Title 22, California Code Of Regulations Section 12705. The proposed No Significant Risk Level (NSRL) for naphthalene and the proposed Maxmimum Allowable Dose Levels (MADLs) for sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate were approved on August 12, 2005

Final Statement of Reasons for specific regulatory levels posing no significant risk for eight chemicals listed as known to the State to cause cancer (benz[a]anthracene, benzene, benzo[b]fluoranthene, benzo[j]fluoranthene, bromoform, chrysene, 7H-dibenzo[c,g]carbazole, dibenzo[a,h]pyrene, dibenzo[a,i]pyrene, and 5-methylchrysene).

Notice of modifications to the risk assessment document for naphthalene which serves as the basis for the proposed regulations Title 22, California Code of Regulations Section 12705 OAL rulemaking files 04-1110-06s, 05-0318-04sr and 05-0602-03sr.

Notice of proposed rulemaking Title 22, California Code of Regulations. Amendments to Section 12601, Clear and Reasonable Warning: Acrylamide.

Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) proposes to amend Title 22, California Code of Regulations, section 12705 to add a new subsection providing an alternative risk level for the chemical acrylamide in breads and cereals.

Notice of proposed rulemaking, Title 22, California Code of Regulations, amendments to Section 12705b and c, Specific Regulatory Levels Posing No Significant Risk.

Notice of Amendment - Title 27, California Code of Regulations Amendment of Section 25703(a)(6): Quantitative Risk Assessment. The amendment modifies the calculation used to convert estimates of animal cancer potency to estimates of human cancer potency, which is used to calculate no significant risk levels for carcinogens listed under Proposition 65.

Final Statement of Reasons. The regulation adopts regulatory levels for two chemicals included in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, benzene and bromoform.

OEHHA announces the availability of the amended regulatory text and the supporting rulemaking documents,Title 22, California Code of Regulations, Sections 12705 and 12805.

The proposed acrylamide work plan outlines four different actions that will provide guidance on the applicability of Proposition 65 to foods.