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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.

OEHHA announces a public workshop and comment period for the draft Public Health Goal for arsenic in drinking water.

Decision not to proceed with the listing of diethanolamine via the Authoritative Bodies listing mechanism as known to cause cancer.

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

A draft report containing the proposed advisory and OEHHA's evaluation of potential health threats posed by mercury in certain fish from five reservoirs and portions of the Bear and South Yuba rivers and Deer Creek (Nevada, Placer and Yuba counties).

This Notice of Modifications includes revisions of the proposed regulations amending the circumstances under which a safe use determination will not be issued and also addresses the limits of the reference to Evidence Code Section 1040 as it relates to "Official Information" for purposes of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65).