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A meeting of the Carcinogen Identification Committee (CIC) was held virtually on June 13, 2023. A recording of the full meeting is available online.
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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.
The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment intends to list antimony (trivalent compounds) as known to the state to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986.
Vea el nuevo StoryMap en español que conmemora los 10 años de la primera versión pública de CalEnviroScreen. El StoryMap muestra cómo se desarrolló CalEnviroScreen, se ha mejorado con el paso de tiempo, ha sido utilizado para promover la justicia ambiental y cómo se ha convertido en un modelo nacional.
Fish advisory for Gwen Moore Lake in Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Los Angeles County.
A state fish advisory issued today for Sunbeam Lake in Imperial County provides safe-eating advice for black bass species, Channel Catfish, Common Carp, sunfish species and Threadfin Shad.
A state fish advisory issued today for Gwen Moore Lake in Los Angeles County provides safe-eating advice for black bass species, Common Carp, Mississippi Silverside and sunfish species.
The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment is announcing the webcast option for the Northern California Public Workshop on releasing a draft document for public review that summarizes the carcinogenicity data and derives an updated cancer inhalation unit risk factor for ethylene oxide. At the request of the American Chemistry Council, OEHHA hereby extends the public comment period. The public comment period will now close on Wednesday, June 14, 2023.