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The advisory issued provides safe eating advice for black bass species, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout, Sacramento Pikeminnow, and Sacramento Sucker.

Fish advisory for Yuba River, North Yuba River, and Middle Yuba River.

Advisory based on mercury.

Fish advisory for Deer Creek in Nevada County.

Derivation of the Public Health Concentrations (PHC) for Chlorthal-dimethyl (DCPA) and its Degradates Monomethyl Tetrachloroterephthalic Acid (MTP) and Tetrachloroterepththalic Acid (TPA) in Groundwater.

OEHHA compiles environmental indicators tracking the impacts of climate change in California, which are already occurring. 

OEHHA offers educational courses to health care providers on the recognition, treatment, and reporting of pesticide-related illness. Courses are available on-line or on-site. Each course is approximately one hour, and continuing education credits may be provided.

This SUD request is limited to exposures to styrene from Fiber Care Baths, Inc. bathware products manufactured utilizing 1st and 2nd laminations systems and application of the LV-9800 acrylated gel-coat.  Exposure to other listed substances, if any, which may be present in these materials will not be reviewed by OEHHA in the context of this request.

N-Nitrosohexamethyleneimine and gentian violet will be considered for possible listing by the CIC at a public meeting scheduled for Thursday, November 1, 2018.  The meeting will be held in the Sierra Hearing Room at the CalEPA Headquarters building, 1001 I Street, Sacramento, California.  The meeting will begin at 10:00 a.m. and will last until all business is conducted or until 5:00 p.m.  The agenda for the meeting will be provided in a future public notice published in advance of the meeting.

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is adopting a new cancer inhalation unit risk factor (IUR) for tert-butyl acetate (TBAc).  IURs are used to estimate lifetime cancer risks associated with inhalation exposure to a carcinogen.