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Interpretive Guideline No. 2018-01, Residential Exposure to Methyleugenol

2018 Children's Environmental Health Symposium exploring "Air Pollution and Lifecourse Neurological Impacts.” The symposium will be held October 2, 2018 and will examine the potential factors underlying children's unique vulnerabilities to the cumulative impacts of pollution and socioeconomic and community stressors.

2018 Children's Environmental Health Symposium exploring "Air Pollution and Lifecourse Neurological Impacts.” The symposium will be held October 2, 2018 and will examine the potential factors underlying children's unique vulnerabilities to the cumulative impacts of pollution and socioeconomic and community stressors.

This provides guidance for businesses and the public by establishing default natural background levels for inorganic arsenic in white and brown rice.  These default background levels can assist businesses in determining the applicability of the warning requirements of Proposition 65.

Advisory based on mercury. The Clear Lake advisory updated in May 2014 is only for Clear Lake. The updated guidelines for Cache Creek are also available. This advisory was further updated in August 2018 to remove advice for Clear Lake Hitch, which is currently listed as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act. Clear Lake Hitch are not permitted to be harvested.

The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) intends to modify the listing of alcoholic beverages as shown in the table below as known to the state to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65).  This action is being taken pursuant to the “Labor Code” listing mechanism.

The advisory issued provides safe eating advice for Barred Sand Bass, Pacific Chub Mackerel, sharks, Shiner Perch, Spotted Sand Bass, Topsmelt, Yellowfin Croaker, Diamond Turbot, Pile Perch, Rainbow Surfperch, Spotted Turbot, Black Perch, Round Stingray, Shovelnose Guitarfish, and Spiny Lobster.

Advisory based on mercury or PCBs.  

Nickel and nickel compounds will be considered for possible listing by the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee. 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 a.m. and will last until all business is conducted or until 5:00 p.m.

This regulation establishes a MADL of 290 micrograms per day for metham sodium.