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Información y asesoramiento para el consumo seguro de peces capturados en California.

• El pescado y los mariscos son muy nutritivos, y representan una parte important

Elkhorn slough fish advisory explains that women younger than 46 and children younger than 18 should not eat any Leopard Shark or large Bat Ray from Elkhorn Slough. People of all ages can safely eat as many as seven servings per week of Asian Clam or Speckled Sanddab.

Safe eating advice for five species of fish from Elkhorn Slough in Monterey County.

Providing emergency personnel with information on the health effects of chemical agents and characterizing the risk to the public.

Notice of issuance of a Safe Use Determination (SUD) for exposure to residents of homes and other facilities to diisononyl phthalate (DINP) in vinyl flooring products containing 18.9% DINP by weight, or less.

Sedaxane listed effective July 1, 2016 as known to the state of California to cause cancer via the authoritative bodies mechanism.

Some of the information used in OEHHA’s analysis supporting the issuance of the December 4, 2015 SUD has been corrected.

Final statement of reasons: notice of amendment to section 25805, maximum allowable dose level (MADL) for bisphenol A (dermal exposure from solid materials). The regulation establishing a MADL of 3 micrograms per day from dermal exposure from solid materials will be effective October 1, 2016.

A Safe Use Determination (SUD) is a written statement issued by OEHHA, which interprets and applies Proposition 65 and its implementing regulations to a specific set of facts in response to a request by a business or a trade group.

Proposal to adopt Proposition 65 Maximum Allowable Dose Levels (MADLs) of 100 micrograms per day for oral exposure to  atrazine, propazine, simazine, 2,4‑diamino‑6‑chloro-s-triazine (DACT), des-ethyl atrazine (DEA), and des-isopropyl atrazine (DIA).