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The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment convened a meeting of the CIC on February 27th, 2024. The meeting opened with a session on enzyme polymorphisms and susceptibility to carcinogenicity, including presentations from invited speakers and discussions with the Committee. The presentations and discussion will help inform future cancer hazard identification work at OEHHA. The Committee also discussed OEHHA’s proposal to streamline several sections of cancer hazard identification documents.

Health assessment memorandum to the California Department of Food and Agriculture detailing OEHHA’s health evaluation based on environmental monitoring data collected during the 2021-2023 application of Acelepryn® and Acelepryn G® (active ingredient chlorantraniliprole) to non-commercial turf for Japanese Beetle eradication in Sacramento County.

Fact sheet for residents detailing OEHHA’s health evaluation based on environmental monitoring data collected during the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s 2021-2023 application of Acelepryn® and Acelepryn G® (active ingredient chlorantraniliprole) to non-commercial turf for Japanese Beetle treatment in Sacramento County.

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) decided to withdraw the proposed rulemaking intended to update the No Significant Risk Level for Ethylene Oxide.

The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is hosting a series of webinars as part of its efforts to track and report on climate change and its impacts on California. This webinar is the first in the series and will be co-convened with CAL FIRE.

Today, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) issued a fish consumption advisory for Lake Morena, located approximately 36 miles east of the city of San Diego in San Diego County. The advisory provides safe-eating advice for black bass species, Common Carp and crappie species.

Fish advisory for Lake Morena from San Diego County.

On January 24, 2024, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) convened a symposium as part of its efforts to track and report on climate change and its impacts on California.

OEHHA recognizes the value of tribal knowledge in reporting on climate change impacts, and of raising awareness of tribal-specific impacts.

Effective December 29, 2023, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has added bisphenol S (BPS) to the Proposition 65 list as a reproductive toxicant (female reproductive endpoint).