Latest News

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. 

This notice announces the beginning of a 45-day public comment period on the chemicals that will be discussed at a public meeting of the Proposition 65 Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee (DARTIC) scheduled for Thursday, December 10, 2020.

OEHHA has scheduled a public hearing on Tuesday, October 13, 2020, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. In accordance with Governor Newsom’s Executive Orders N-29-20 and N-33-20 as well as recommendations from the California Department of Public Health, the hearing will not have a physical location.

At the request of the California Legislature, OEHHA conducted a health effects assessment of the potential impacts of synthetic food dyes on children, particularly for neurobehavioral and other neurologic effects.