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Effective November 8, 2013, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) changes the basis for the listing of nitrous oxide as known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986.

Draft Public Health Goals for five chemicals are now available for public comment.  These chemicals are: chlorobenzene, endothall, hexachlorocyclopentadiene, silvex, and trichlorofluoromethane.

These amendments would clarify the existing requirements for scientific experts appointed to the committees by the Governor. These amendments will also remove certain portions of Section 25304 that were made redundant when advisory committee members were added to the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment’s (OEHHA) Conflict of Interest Code.

Comment Period - Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Title 27, California Code of Regulations,Proposed Amendment To Section 25302, Science Advisory Board and Section 25304, Financial Disclosure

Advisory for eating fish from Mission Bay, a saltwater bay, about 6 miles north of San Diego Bay in San Diego County. Advice is the maximum number of servings per week.  The advisory is based on mercury or PCBs.

The guidelines for 16 fish species in San Diego Bay and an accompanying advisory for 12 species in nearby Mission Bay. The recommendations for Mission Bay are less restrictive than for San Diego Bay, with no fish species listed in the “do not eat” category. The recommendations are based on the levels of methylmercury and PCBs in different fish species in the two bodies of water.

OEHHA adopted Reference Exposure Levels for Caprolactam following approval by the Scientific Review Panel in 2011. 

Withdrawal of the September 20, 2013 notice announcing the intention to change the basis for the listing of hexafluoroacetone (CAS No. 684-16-2) and phenylphosphine (CAS No. 638-21-1) as known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity

Announcement of the Carcinogen Identification Committee meeting scheduled for December 5, 2013 and the availability of hazard identification documents for butyl benzyl phthalate and diisononyl phthalate.

Effective September 27, 2013, chloramphenicol sodium succinate is added to the list of chemicals known to the State to cause cancer for purposes of Proposition 65.  The listing is based on the formally required to be labeled or identified mechanism.