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The updated PHG for perchlorate is one part-per-billion (1 ppb) based on the inhibition of iodide uptake into the thyroid gland and the consequent disruption of thyroid hormone production.
| Program: Water
OEHHA is requesting comments as to whether styrene meets the criteria set forth in the Proposition 65 regulations for authoritative bodies listings.
| Program: Proposition 65
Additional modification to the proposed regulation to add section 25904 to Title 27 of the California Code of Regulations.
| Program: Proposition 65
A Story of Health was developed by ATSDR, the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE), the University of California, San Francisco, Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (UCSF PEHSU), the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California EPA (OEHHA), and the Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN) to explain how environments interact with genes to influence health across the lifespan.
| Program: Risk Assessment
The study is the first to consider the effects on people of long-term exposure to ultrafine particles and analyzed data from more than 100,000 middle-aged women whose health status was followed from 2000 through 2007.
| Program: Air
A general overview of the Criteria Air Pollutants (PM2.5, course particles, nitrogen dioxide and ozone) is provided, with links to health studies.
| Program: Air
Details on OEHHA's work on health-based recommendations for California's Ambient Air Quality Standards on the common "criteria" air pollutants.
| Program: Air
February 2015 public comment period and public review of hazard identification materials on BPA and female reproductive toxicity.
| Program: Proposition 65
Bisphenol A (BPA) was considered for listing at the meeting of the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee (DARTIC) scheduled for May 7, 2015 in Sacramento.
| Program: Proposition 65
Hearing for a Safe Use determination for DINP in carpet tile.
| Program: Proposition 65