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Proposal to add a MADL for Acrylamide of 140 ug/day

The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has found that acrylamide meets the criteria for listing as a reproductive toxicant under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. It is therefore issuing this notice of intent to list this chemical under Proposition 65.

Notice of intent to list metam potassium (CAS No. 137-41-7) as known to the State to cause cancer via the authoritative bodies mechanism.

Notice that Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) proposes to establish a specific regulatory level having no observable effect for acrylamide. The proposed MADL is 140 micrograms per day.  Request for comments.

OEHHA has provided a number of comments on DPR’s proposal for regulatory mitigation for Methyl Isothiocyanate (MITC). These comments and our recommendations, as well as suggested clarifications, additions and corrections, are contained in this report.

Notice of proposed rulemaking regarding specific regulatory levels posing no significant risk: p-chloroaniline and p-chloroaniline hydrochloride.

Comment period. BPA appears to meet the criteria for listing as known to the State to cause reproductive toxicity under Proposition 65, based on findings of the National Toxicology Program’s Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction.

February 2010 request for relevant information on Bisphenol-A  as a reproductive toxicant for listing by the Authoritative Bodies mechanism.

Public comment period for the hazard ID materials for Fluoride and Its Salts, and Tris(1,3-Dichloro-2-Propyl) Phosphate.  Both will be considered for listing at the October 2011 meeting.

OEHHA intends to list the chemicals diclofop-methyl and epoxiconazole as known to the State to cause cancer.