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Presentations from the 2016 Children’s Environmental Health Symposium exploring "New Findings from California”.

La Oficina de Evaluación de Peligros a la Salud Ambiental (OEHHA, por sus siglas en inglés), en nombre de La Agencia de Protección Ambiental del Estado de California (CalEPA), comunica que se encue

Notice of intent to list perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) as known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986.  Public comments are available.

Comment Period on the Notice of Intent to List Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) as known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986

Proposal to readopt an emergency regulation to allow temporary use of a standard point-of-sale warning message for BPA exposures from canned and bottled foods and beverages.

Webcast and public forum - Identifying and evaluating alternative materials – the case of BPA-free can linings”

This is a 45-day public comment period on five chemicals or chemical groups to be discussed at the November 2016 meeting of the Proposition 65 Carcinogen Identification Committee (CIC).

Comments are available for public review on a 45-day public comment period on five chemicals or chemical groups to be discussed at the November 2016 meeting of the Proposition 65 Carcinogen Identification Committee (CIC).

Revised inhalation cancer Unit Risk for perchloroethylene is: 6.1 x 10^-6 (µg/m3)^-1, the inhalation Cancer Slope Factor is 2.1 x 10^-2 (mg/kg-day)^-1

Draft screening methodology that can be used to help identify California communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution.