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Los pesticidas de legado tóxico en el pescado y los mariscos.
| Program: Fish
Fish advisory issued today for Prado Lake in San Bernardino County provides safe eating advice for black bass species, Channel Catfish, Common Carp, sunfish species, and Threadfin Shad.
| Program: Fish
OEHHA, the City of Elk Grove and a team of hydrologists examined the potential environmental risks associated with the use of dry wells. Infiltration of stormwater runoff through dry wells with pretreatment may pose little risk to groundwater quality.
| Program: Ecotoxicology
The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment is recommending that the State Water Resources Control Board set the notification level for perfluorohexane sulfonic acid at the lowest level at which it can be reliably detected in drinking water using currently available and appropriate technologies.
| Program: Water
Information on how CalEnviroscreen uses pollution burden and population characteristics to calculate the CalEnviroscreen score.
| Program: CalEnviroScreen
The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has selected bisphenol S (BPS) for the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee review for possible listing under Proposition 65 and is soliciting information relevant to the assessment of its reproductive toxicity.
| Program: Proposition 65
The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) intends to list perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) (CAS RN 335-67-1) as known to the state to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65). This action is being proposed pursuant to the “Authoritative Bodies” listing mechanism.
| Program: Proposition 65