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Please join OEHHA and the Children’s Environmental Health Center for a virtual symposium series exploring the effects of heat on children and during pregnancy. This highly interactive four-session symposium will cover physiologic considerations for children and pregnancy, strategies to combat health effects in children and during pregnancy, and important considerations for these populations in the development of heat health warning systems.
| Program: Risk Assessment
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| Program: Water
Updated fish advisories issued today for Castaic Lake and Castaic Lagoon in Los Angeles County add safe-eating advice for several species.Updated fish advisories issued today for Castaic Lake and Castaic Lagoon in Los Angeles County add safe-eating advice for several species.
| Program: Fish
The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announces the availability of the Notice, preliminary agenda and materials for the 2022 meeting of the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee.
| Program: Proposition 65
The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) intends to list 1-bromo-3-chloropropane (CAS RN 109-70-6), 1-butyl glycidyl ether (CAS RN 2426-08-6), and glycidyl methacrylate (CAS RN 106-91-2) as known to the state to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986.
| Program: Proposition 65
The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) of the California Environmental Protection Agency has adopted and published Public Health Goals (PHGs) for the five regulated haloacetic acids (HAAs) found in drinking water as a result of disinfection methods: monochloroacetic acid (MCA), dichloroacetic acid (DCA), trichloroacetic acid (TCA), monobromoacetic acid (MBA), and dibromoacetic acid (DBA).
| Program: Water
Questions and answers about the insecticide Acelepryn G® (chlorantraniliprole) used for Japanese beetle control
| Program: Pesticides
Questions and answers about the insecticide beetleGONE® tlc (Btg) used for Japanese beetle control
| Program: Pesticides