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OEHHA adopts a No Significant Risk Level of 96 micrograms per day for exposures to bromoethane
Comment Period - Intent to change basis of listing for Actinomycin D from the Labor Code to listing via the formally required to be labeled or identified mechanism
Comment Period - Notice of intent to list Styrene as a carcinogen by the Labor Code mechanism
Meeting materials for the ninth meeting of the cumulative impacts and precautionary approaches (CIPA) workgroup.
The Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee is scheduled to meet on Monday, February 25, 2013, in the Coastal Hearing Room of the California Environmental Protection Agency
Intent to change basis of listing for Actinomycin D from the Labor Code to listing via the formally required to be labeled or identified mechanism.
Per court ruling, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) may not list a chemical as causing cancer under Proposition 65 pursuant to the Labor Code mechanism set out in Health and Safety Code section 25249.8(a), referencing Labor Code section 6382(d), solely on the basis of its identification by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as being possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), where that determination is based on less than sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and animals. The language in the court’s ruling applies to ten chemicals.
OEHHA is removing chloramphenicol from the list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer, for purposes of Proposition 65. The delisting of chloramphenicol is effective January 4, 2013.
Notice of intent to list Styrene as a carcinogen by the Labor Code mechanism