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OEHHA conducted an exhaustive analysis of all available scientific studies on the health effects of arsenic. The proposed PHG of 4 parts per trillion is based upon studies of hundreds of thousands of patients in Taiwan, Chile and Argentina with lung and bladder cancers associated with elevated levels of arsenic in drinking water.

Request for information on chemicals to be considered by the OEHHA Science Advisory Board's Carcinogen Identification Committee: Statins

Chemical listed effective February 21, 2003 as known to the state of California to cause cancer: Carbon Black (airborne, unbound particles of respirable size).

Request for information on phenol, a chemical to be considered by OEHHA's Science Advisory Board's Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant (DART) Identification Committee.

Correction to the list of chemicals as known to the State to cause reproductive toxicity: Urofollitropin.

Notice of Amendments to Text of Regulations, Title 22, California Code of Regulations, Preamble to Division 2, Chapter 3, Article 1 and Sections 12102 - 12302, 12304 - 12504, 12601, 12701, 12705, 12709, 12711, 12721 - 14000

Effective January 17, 2003 , sodium saccharin is delisted from the list of chemicals as known to cause cancer.   Bromacil lithium salt is listed effective January 17, 2003 as known to the state of California to cause reproductive toxicity.

OEHHA announces a second public comment period for the revised draft technical support documents for proposed Public Health Goals for 11 chemicals.  These chemicals are: asbestos, barium, beryllium, chlorobenzene, 1,1-dichloroethane, diethylhexyl adipate, ethylene dibromide, hexachlorobenzene, silvex, 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane, and toxaphene.

OEHHA announces a second public comment period for the proposed Public Health Goal for Perchlorate.

Notice to Interested Parties December 17, 2002 Meeting of the Science Advisory Board's Cancer Identification Committee (CIC)