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Intent to list the chemical Bisphenol A as known to the State to cause reproductive toxicity (developmental endpoint) under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. This action is being proposed under the authoritative bodies listing mechanism.

In January 2013 OEHHA proposed to adopt a Proposition 651 Maximum Allowable Dose Level (MADL) of 290 micrograms per day for exposures to bisphenol A (BPA).

OEHHA is withdrawing the proposal at this time.  A public notice will be published in the event OEHHA decides to proceed with a proposed rulemaking at a later time.

In January 2013 OEHHA requested comments as to whether Bisphenol A meets the criteria set forth in the Proposition 65 regulations for authoritative bodies listings.

In 2013 speakers from Children’s Environmental Health Research Centers, Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units on the West Coast and OEHHA gathered to discuss children’s exposure to chemicals, how the environment changes the development of the brain and nervous system in children and childhood leukemia.

OEHHA adopts a No Significant Risk Level of 96 micrograms per day for exposures to bromoethane

Comment Period - Intent to change basis of listing for Actinomycin D from the Labor Code to listing via the formally required to be labeled or identified mechanism

Comment Period - Notice of intent to list Styrene as a carcinogen by the Labor Code mechanism

Meeting materials for the ninth meeting of the cumulative impacts and precautionary approaches (CIPA) workgroup.

January 11, 2013 ninth CIPA meeting