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April 14, 2014 public workshop for the purpose of discussing a possible regulatory action to change the existing regulation governing Proposition 65 warnings.  If a regulation is adopted, it would replace the existing OEHHA regulation.

OEHHA has changed the basis for identifying male reproductive toxicity as an endpoint of reproductive toxicity for methyl chloride under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986.

Updated second draft Public Health Goals for chlorobenzene, endothall, hexachlorocyclopentadiene, silvex, and trichlorofluoromethane are now available.

The state’s qualified experts determined that toluene was clearly shown, through scientifically valid testing according to generally accepted principles, to cause reproductive toxicity (developmental endpoint). 

Sources and health effects of chemicals in the fish we eat.

Comment period on the Notice of intent to list pentosan polysulfate sodium, pioglitazone, triamterene as known to cause cancer by the Labor Code mechanism

Notice of intent to list pentosan polysulfate sodium, pioglitazone, triamterene as known to cause cancer by the Labor Code mechanism

OEHHA hosted its Children's Environmental Health Symposium in Sacramento.  The theme of the symposium was "Impacts of Environmental Chemicals on Development – Are complex interactions captured by traditional risk assessment practices?"

Extension of the comment period on the notice of intent to list nitrite in combination with amines or amides.

Notice of intent to list pulegone as known to the State to cause cancer via the Labor Code mechanism.