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Extension of public comment period. Notice of intent to list chemicals: Anthraquinone.

Notice of intent to list anthraquinone as causing cancer under the authoritative bodies mechanism.

Information on the health effects of ETS.

This 2006 pamphlet summarizes some of the findings from a comprehensive review of hundreds of studies of secondhand smoke by the California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.

OEHHA has provided a number of comments on DPR’s proposal for regulatory mitigation for Methyl Isothiocyanate (MITC). These comments and our recommendations, as well as suggested clarifications, additions and corrections, are contained in this report.

OEHHA has provided a number of comments (ADDITIONAL) on the risk characterization methodology and conclusions on the draft RCD for Methyl Iodide. These comments and our recommendations, as well as suggested clarifications, additions and corrections, are contained in this report.

OEHHA has been working with the California Water and Land Use Partnership to educate land use decision makers and their staff about the link between land use and natural resource protection.

This fact sheet on low impact development (LID) provides a solution to minimize or eliminate the impacts on the water cycle caused by paving over large areas of land, and reviews the basic principles of LID, its benefits and implementation challenges, its use in new and re-development, and provides examples of its application in urban and suburban environments.

Release of final technical document establishing ChRDs for Manganese (3.0 x 10^-2 mg/kg-day) and Pentachlorophenol (1.0 x 10^-3 mg/kg-day) to be used in school site risk assessments

Fish are nutritious and good to eat, but anglers and other fish lovers need to be aware of the presence of mercury in many kinds of fish. The advisories for Lake Berryessa (Napa County) and Putah Creek (Yolo and Solano Counties) contain “safe eating guidelines” for consumption of fish from the water bodies.