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A state fish advisory issued today for Lopez Lake in San Luis Obispo County provides safe eating advice for black bass species, Brown Bullhead, crappie, Inland Silverside, Sacramento Sucker, sunfish species, and Threadfin Shad.

Fish advisory for Lopez Lake in San Luis Obispo County.

A technical report by OEHHA describing a screening-level health risk assessment of potential residential exposures to the insecticide chlorantraniliprole from soil and turf treatment by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to control the Japanese Beetle (JB) (Popillia japonica).

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) conducts scientific peer review of human health risk assessments prepared by the Department of Pesticide Regulation

This free virtual two-day workshop will highlight scientific evidence and information relating to climate change and its impacts, with a focus on recognizing and describing how the multiple aspects of climate change are interconnected.

The effects of HAB-related toxins on humans and animals.

The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) intends to list the following chemicals as known to the state to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65.

Description of the process of developing Interim Advisory Tissue Levels for cadmium.

OEHHA is cancelling the public hearing scheduled to occur on October 13, 2020. Members of the public may continue to submit written comments until the close of the extended public comment period, October 21, 2020.

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment is adopting new cancer inhalation unit risk and slope factors for Cobalt and Cobalt Compounds for use in the Air Toxics Hot Spots Program.  Inhalation unit risks are used to estimate lifetime cancer risks associated with inhalation exposure to a carcinogen.