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Amendment to Title 22, California Code of Regulations, Section 12805, Specific Regulatory Levels: Chemicals causing reproductive toxicity (Proposition 65 Maximum Allowable Dose Level (MADL) for Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) by oral exposure.

The state's Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant (DART) Identification Committee concluded that available scientific information on perchlorate was not sufficient for placing perchlorate on the Proposition 65 list.

Notice of intent to list nitrapyrin as causing cancer under the authoritative bodies mechanism

OEHHA performed a hazard assessment for upland game collected from the Potrero Canyon Unit of the San Jacinto Wildlife Area in Riverside County, California.  The assessment showed that the health hazards from consuming these game species from this site are well below a level of human health concern.

List of work products from 2000-2005 compiling indicators to be used for environmental protection efforts in California

August 11, 2005 meeting of the Science Advisory Board’s Developmental And Reproductive Toxicant (Dart) Identification Committee on perchlorate, progesterone, and chloroform.

August 12, 2005 meeting of the Science Advisory Board’s Carcinogen Identification Committee on 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene

Comments submitted in response to the three proposed regulatory actions on acrylamide (comment period closed on July 8, 2005).  Rulemaking withdrawn in 2006.

OEHHA announces a public comment period for draft Public Health Goals for 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and copper in drinking water.

OEHHA is making a correction to the Notice of Modifications to Text of Proposed Regulations for the chemical Di(2 ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) (by intraveneous injection) which was published on June 24, 2005 in the California Regulatory Notice Register (Register 05, No. 25-Z).