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OEHHA has selected chemicals for the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee's review for possible listing under Proposition 65 as causing reproductive toxicity (developmental toxicity endpoint).

A state fish advisory issued today for Whiskeytown Lake in Shasta County provides safe eating advice for black bass species, Brook Trout, Sacramento Pikeminnow, Sacramento Sucker, and sunfish species.

Advisory based on mercury.

For information relating to biotoxins from harmful algal blooms (HABs) that may be found in California water bodies, see below.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) proposes to adopt new sections to Article 6 of Title 27 of the California Code of Regulations.

This request is limited to exposures to crystalline silica (airborne particles of respirable size) from the four specified WOODWISE® wood filler products.

This request is limited to exposures to bisphenol A from the specified eyewear products (prescription glasses, OTC reading glasses, non-prescription sunglasses, and safety glasses).

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is releasing a document for public review that summarizes the carcinogenicity and derivation of cancer inhalation unit risk factors (IURs) for cobalt and cobalt compounds.  Cancer inhalation unit risk factors are used to estimate lifetime cancer risks associated with inhalation exposure to a carcinogen.

The listing of bevacizumab is based on a formal requirement by the US Food and Drug Administration that the chemical be identified or labeled as causing reproductive toxicity.

Helpful links, print materials, and videos to support fish advisory recommendations.

The regulation will be effective on April 1, 2019.  This regulation establishes a No Significant Risk Level of 0.70 micrograms per day for bromochloroacetic acid for purposes of Proposition 65.