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Each year the Children’s Environmental Health Program sponsors a symposium on key emerging issues relevant to state scientists and policy makers in the field of children’s environmental health.

Please join OEHHA and the Children’s Environmental Health Center for a virtual symposium series exploring the effects of heat on children and during pregnancy. This highly interactive four-session symposium will cover physiologic considerations for children and pregnancy, strategies to combat health effects in children and during pregnancy, and important considerations for these populations in the development of heat health warning systems.

Advisory for fish taken from Pyramid Lake, a reservoir on Piru Creek near Castaic, California, in the Angeles and Los Padres National Forests, about 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles.  Advice based on mercury or PCBs.

Updated fish advisory issued today for Pyramid Lake in Los Angeles County provides safe-eating advice for black bass species, bullhead species, catfish species, Rainbow Trout, Striped Bass and sunfish species.  

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Updated fish advisories issued today for Castaic Lake and Castaic Lagoon in Los Angeles County add safe-eating advice for several species.Updated fish advisories issued today for Castaic Lake and Castaic Lagoon in Los Angeles County add safe-eating advice for several species.

Fish advisory for Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County.

Fish advisory for Castaic Lagoon in Los Angeles County.

A new Fact sheet on pregnancy and heat is now available. 

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announces the availability of the Notice, preliminary agenda and materials for the 2022 meeting of the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee.