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Announcement of Public Hearing for Proposition 65 lead agency website. This regulation would establish a framework for a website operated by OEHHA to provide information about potential exposures to listed chemicals.
| Program: Proposition 65
March 2015 public hearing and comment period repeal of article 6 and adoption of new article 6 : Clear and Reasonable Warnings. These new regulations would further the “right-to-know” purposes of the statute and provide more specific guidance on the content of safe harbor warnings for a variety of exposure situations, and corresponding methods for providing those warnings.
| Program: Proposition 65
October 2015 addition of Atrazine, Propazine, Simazine and their chlorometabolites DACT, DEA and DIA as known to the State of California to cause reproductive toxicity. [listing delayed pending the court ruling on Syngenta’s Request for a Temporary Stay in Syngenta v OEHHA (Third District Court of Appeal case# C082128)]
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Beta-Myrcene listed effective March 27, 2015 as known to the state of California to cause cancer via the authoritative bodies mechanism.
| Program: Proposition 65
Current Air Toxics Hot Spots Program Guidance Manual for Preparation of Health Risk Assessments
| Program: Air
In 2015, OEHHA hosted is annual Children's Environmental Health Symposium, this time focusing on the impacts of climate change on children's health.
| Program: Climate Change
In 2015, OEHHA hosted is annual Children's Environmental Health Symposium, this time focusing on the impacts of climate change on children's health.
| Program: Climate Change
OEHHA has adopted an updated public health goal (PHG) of 1 part per billion (ppb) for perchlorate in drinking water. This PHG updates the 2004 perchlorate value of 6 ppb. Perchlorate is known to block the thyroid’s ability to take in and process iodide, which is a nutrient essential to brain development, growth, heart function, and other systems.
| Program: Water
Notice of intent to list styrene as known to the State of California to cause cancer via the authoritative bodies mechanism.
| Program: Proposition 65
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