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OEHHA adds acrylamide (CAS No. 79-06-1) to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity

Availability for public review of the hazard identification document entitled: “Evidence on the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity of Sulfur Dioxide."

Approved amendment to Title 27, California Code of Regulations, section 25705(b)(1), that adopt 8.2 micrograms per day as the No Significant Risk Level for 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene (TNT) for purposes of Proposition 65.

Extension of comment period for the proposal to establish a specific regulatory level posing no significant risk for 4-methylimidazole by amending Title 27, California Code of Regulations, section 25705.

Announcement of chemicals selected in 2011 by OEHHA for consideration for listing by the Carcinogen Identification Committee and request for relevant information on the carcinogenic hazards of these chemicals: clomiphene and its salts, 2,6-dimethyl-N-nitrosomorpholine, haloperidol, tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCPP).

2011 public comment period on the Carcinogenic Hazards of: Clomiphene and its salts, 2,6-Dimethyl-N-nitrosomorpholine, Haloperidol, Tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCPP)

The Public Health Goal for trichlorotrifluoroethane (Freon 113) has been updated.

OEHHA adopted revised toxicity equivalency factors for polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and dibenzofurans (PCDFs), and for dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) to conform to the most recent values (TEF WHO-05).

Safe fishing advisory for Donner Lake.  The advisory is based on mercury or PCBs.

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

OEHHA made a non-substantive reference change to the draft Public Health Goal for hexavalent chromium.