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The CIC met on November 5, 2008 to consider the potential listing of N,N-dimethylformamide and 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene.
| Program: Proposition 65
Announcement of a public workshop on December 3, 2008 to discuss the concepts concerning a possible regulation to provide guidance for food retailers on how to provide warnings for exposures to listed chemicals in foods.
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The Scientific Review Panel for Toxic Air Contaminants reviewed OEHHA's draft Reference Exposure Level documents for acetaldehyde, acrolein, arsenic, formaldehyde, manganese, and mercury, as well as the draft Technical Support Document for Cancer Potency Factors.
| Program: Air
The DARTIC met on November 20, 2008 to consider the potential listing of hexavalent chromium and chlorpyrifos.
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On October 31, 2008 the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) published a notice in the California Regulatory Notice Register (Register 2008, No.
| Program: Proposition 65
On November 20, 2008, the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee will determine if chlorpyrifos should be added to the Proposition 65 list of chemicals known to the State to cause reproductive toxicity.
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A relevant study of the developmental toxicity of chlorpyrifos had been inadvertently omitted from the HID. In order to allow the DARTIC to review as complete a data set as possible, OEHHA has provided the Committee with a summary of the study equivalent to the summaries provided for other studies in the HID, as well as a copy of the entire study report.
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OEHHA is investigating the possibility of amending the existing warning regulations currently located in Title 27, California Code of Regulations, section 25601 to add specific options for both the method and content for warnings for exposures to listed chemicals in foods.
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Evaluation of the available health and safety data related to two pheromone products (Checkmate OLR-F and Checkmate LBAM -F), and a summary of the symptoms reported after application in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties.
| Program: Pesticides
Opportunity to comment on the re-drafted concepts re: exposures to a human and plant nutrient in a food. Workshop held December 12, 2008.
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