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Chemicals under consideration for possible listing as known to cause cancer via the Authoritative Bodies mechanisms: Request for relevant Information (Iprovalicarb, Nitrapyrin, Propoxur).
Notice of proposed rulemaking, Title 22, California Code of Regulations, amendments to Section 12705b and c, Specific Regulatory Levels Posing No Significant Risk.
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) proposes to amend Title 22, California Code of Regulations, section 12705 to add a new subsection providing an alternative risk level for the chemical acrylamide in breads and cereals.
OEHHA accepted public comments on a draft fish advisory concerning elevated levels of mercury in fish in Trinity Lake and selected water bodies in the Trinity River watershed in Trinity County.
Notice of proposed rulemaking Title 22, California Code of Regulations. Amendments to Section 12601, Clear and Reasonable Warning: Acrylamide.
Workshop on potential regulatory action exempting exposures from chemicals that form from natural constituents in food during cooking or heat processing from the Proposition 65 warning requirements.
Extension of comment period. Notice of intent to list butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP), di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP), di-n-hexyl phthalate (DnHP), and di-isodecyl phthalate (DIDP) under Proposition 65 as chemicals known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity.
Extension of public comment period; Notice of proposed rulemaking. Use of specified methods of detection and analysis for listed chemicals for voluntary compliance testing.
OEHHA announced that the state's Public Health Goal (PHG) for perchlorate in drinking water is consistent with the findings of a recent report on the chemical by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
Notice of Intent to List chemical as causing reproductive toxicity under the authoritative bodies mechanism: 2-bromopropane