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Tips for Catching, Preparing, and Cooking Fish and Shellfish Chemicals like mercury and PCBs or biotoxins like domoic acid can build up in fish or shellfish. You can reduce your exposure to harmful chemicals in fish and shellfish by following the recommendations below. Follow as many of them as you can to protect your health.

Extension of comment period. Solicitation of information which may be relevant to the evaluation of cocamide diethanolamine (coconut oil acid diethanolamine condensate) under consideration for possible listing within the context of the Proposition 65 administrative listing regulatory criteria.

The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 19861 (Proposition 65 or the Act), which is codified as Health and Safety Code section 25249.5 et seq., requires the Governor to publish, and update at least annually, a list of chemicals known to the State to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.  The Act describes the mechanisms for administratively listing chemicals as known to the State to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity (Health and Safety Code section 25249.8). On October 22, 2010, OEHHA published a notice in the California Regulatory Notice Register (Register 10 No. 43-Z) soliciting information which may be relevant to the evaluation of kresoxim-methyl (CAS No. 143390-89-0) under consideration for possible listing within the context of the Proposition 65 administrative listing regulatory criteria in Title 27 of the California Code of Regulations section 25306. The publication of the notice initiated a 60‑day public comment period which would have closed on December 21, 2010.  OEHHA has received a request from interested parties seeking an extension of the comment period to allow for the submission of complete and relevant scientific information for kresoxim-methyl.  OEHHA hereby extends the public comment period for this chemical until 5 p.m., Thursday, January 20, 2011.  We encourage you to submit comments in electronic form, rather than in paper form.  Comments transmitted by e-mail should be addressed to sam.delson@oehha.ca.gov.  Comments submitted in paper form may be mailed, faxed, or delivered in person to the addresses below: Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Mailing Address:  P.O. Box 4010, MS-19B Sacramento, California 95812-4010 Fax: (916) 323-8803 Street Address:  1001 I Street Sacramento, California 95814   1Commonly known as Proposition 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 is codified in Health and Safety Code section 25249.5 et seq.Extension of comment period for resoxim-methyl under consideration for possible listing within the context of the Proposition 65 administrative listing criteria.

Amendment to Title 27, California Code of Regulations, Section 25805, Specific Regulatory Levels: Chemicals Causing Reproductive Toxicity - Di-isodecyl Phthalate (DIDP)

Proposed regulation as required by Health and Safety Code section 25251.  This proposed regulation specifies hazard traits and environmental and toxicological endpoints and other relevant data that are to be included in the Toxics Information Clearinghouse to be developed by the Department of Toxic Substances Control.

The PHG for selenium is established at 30 parts per billion (ppb) for water-soluble and bioavailable selenium compounds in drinking water. The health-protective level is based on avoidance of several symptoms of chronic selenosis in humans, including increased frequency of thickened and brittle fingernails, garlic odor in the breath, hair loss, skin lesions, and disturbances of the digestive tract.

Candidates for listing via the Authoritative Bodies mechanism found not to meet the regulatory criteria for reproductive toxicity: Thiabendazole, thiabendazole hypophosphate salt, and imazalil.

Notice of intent to list imazalil as known to the State to cause cancer under Proposition 65.

Comment period on notice of intent to list imazalil as known to the State to cause cancer under Proposition 65.

Avermectin B1 (abamectin) listed effective December 3, 2010 as known to the State to cause reproductive toxicity via the Authoritative Bodies listing mechanism.