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Notice of Intent to List chemicals as known to cause cancer and/or reproductive toxicity via the authoritative bodies or "formally required to be labeled or identified" mechanisms: Bromate ion and its water soluble salts, Bromoethane, Isoxaflutole, Gemfibrozil, and Zileuton

OEHHA recommends a Notification Level of 15 ppb (ug/L) for vanadium in drinking water.

Chemicals listed effective August 4, 2000 as known to the state of California to cause cancer: o-Phenylphenol.

Chemicals Under Consideration for Possible Listing via the Authoritative Bodies Mechanisms: AZT Request for Relevant Information - extension of public comment period

Extension of public comment period.  Chemicals under consideration for possible listing: Anthraquinone and Fumonisin B1.

OEHHA recommends an action level of 140 ppb (ug/L) for o-chlorotoluene in drinking water.

Chemicals under consideration for possible listing via the Authoritative Bodies mechanisms: Anthraquinone, AZT, Bromate ion and its water soluble salts, Bromoethane, Diuron, Fumonisn B1, Isoxaflutole, Methyl eugenol, Gemfibrozil, and Zileuton.  Request for relevant information.

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) of the California Environmental Protection Agency is adding three chemicals to the list of chemicals known to the State to cause cancer for purposes of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65). The chemicals are listed effective June 2, 2000 pursuant to an administrative listing mechanism provided under Proposition 65, based upon a formal identification by an authoritative body that the chemical causes cancer.

OEHHA released a fact sheet prepared for the public, detailing health risks from asbestos exposure.

The Emerging Environmental Challenges Program was established in the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) in fiscal year 1996/97, and charged with developing a capability to anticipate future environmental challenges which may confront programs in the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA).