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The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is announcing the availability of a draft document for public review summarizing the noncancer reference exposure levels (RELs) for 1,4-Dichlorobenzene, as part of the Air Toxics Hot Spots program. OEHHA is also anouncing a comment period that will open November 29, 2024 and will close January 13, 2025. 

OEHHA will convene a meeting of the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee (DARTIC). At this meeting the DARTIC will consider the possible listing of bisphenol S (BPS).OEHHA has added a preliminary agenda for the meeting, as well as information about the meeting. 

OEHHA will convene a meeting of the Carcinogen Identification Committee (CIC) for possible listing of vinyl acetate. OEHHA has added a preliminary agenda for the meeting, as well as information about the meeting. 

Fish consumption advisory for Lake Casitas, located approximately 8 miles northwest of the city of Ventura, in Ventura County provides safe-eating advice for black bass species, Common Carp, sunfish species and Threadfin Shad.

El Departamento de Reglamentación de Pesticidas (DPR por sus siglas en inglés) de California ha propuesto nuevas reglamentaciones elaboradas de manera conjunta y mutua con la Oficina de Evaluación de Riesgos para la Salud Ambiental (OEHHA, por sus siglas en inglés) para proteger espectadores ocupacionales en los alrededores de campos tratados para reducir su riesgo de exposición al 1,3-D.

Under the authority of California Food and Agricultural Code Section 12980 and 12981, OEHHA has prepared health-based recommendations for DPR to address potential cancer risks to occupational bystanders from the use of 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D).

The California Department Pesticide Regulation has proposed new regulations, developed jointly and mutually with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, to protect occupational bystanders in the general vicinity of a treated field to reduce the risk of 1,3-D exposure.

Fish Advisory for Modesto Reservoir in Stanislaus County.

Fish consumption advisory for the Modesto Reservoir, located approximately 20 miles east of the city of Modesto, in Stanislaus County provides safe-eating advice for black bass species, Common Carp, sunfish species and Threadfin Shad.

OEHHA researches and presents information related to wildfires and its health effects including development of guidance and fact sheets, epidemiological research, and measurement of wildfire as a climate change indicator.