Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee Meeting, March 18, 2013

The Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee is scheduled to meet on Monday, March 18, 2013, in the Byron Sher Auditorium of the California Environmental Protection Agency headquarters building located at 1001 I Street, Sacramento beginning at 10:00 am and continuing until all business is conducted or 5:00 pm. This meeting is in addition to the previously announced meeting of the committee scheduled for February 25, 2013. The March 18 meeting agenda will be posted on the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) web site in advance of the meeting.

AGENDA

I. INTRODUCTION AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE OATH OF OFFICE TO NEWLY APPOINTED MEMBERS
George Alexeeff, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)

II. CONSIDERATION OF A CHEMICAL AS KNOWN TO THE STATE TO CAUSE REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY

A. Deltamethrin (Revised Hazard Identification document available)

Letter Requesting Transmission of Regulatory Studies to DART IC Members
Staff presentation (Poorni Iyer, DVM, Ph.D., OEHHA)
Committee discussion
Public Comments*
Committee discussion and decision

III. OVERVIEW OF THE PROCESS FOR PROVIDING PEER REVIEW OF OEHHA RISK ASSESSMENTS

Staff presentation
(Carol Monahan-Cummings, Chief Counsel, and Jim Donald, Ph.D., OEHHA)
Public Comments
Committee discussion and recommendations

IV. STAFF UPDATES

Proposition 65 Litigation
(Carol Monahan-Cummings, Chief Counsel, OEHHA)

V. COMMITTEE COMMENTS

VI. PUBLIC COMMENTS

VII. SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE ACTIONS/CLOSE MEETING

Meeting Synopsis

A meeting of the Proposition 65¹ Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee (DART IC) was held on March 18, 2013, at the California Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters Building in Sacramento, California. The Committee considered the listing of deltamethrin as known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity. A summary of the meeting is provided below.

Committee Chair, Dr. Ellen Gold disclosed that she had received a letter from McKenna Long & Aldridge on behalf of Bayer CropScience requesting additional time to make a presentation to the Committee. The request was for an allowance of up to one hour for three speakers. Dr. Gold agreed to provide 20 minutes to each speaker for a total of one hour. A copy of the letter was made available at the meeting.

Dr. Gold also disclosed that Bayer CropScience provided each of the committee members an opportunity to review several studies which had been summarized in the OEHHA document and written comments. Each of the members were required to sign an affirmation regarding the intended use of the information. Any member of the public may review these materials by sending a Public Records Act request to the Department of Pesticide Regulation at publicrecords@cdpr.com referencing “Deltamethrin guideline studies considered by the DART-IC” or by visiting the Department of Pesticide Regulation in the Cal/EPA building located at 1001 I Street in Sacramento.

SUMMARY OF THE LISTING DECISION FOR DELTAMETHRIN

Following staff presentations, public comments and committee discussions, the DART IC determined that deltamethrin had not been clearly shown to cause reproductive or developmental toxicity. The Committee voted 6 ‘no’ and 1 ‘yes’ for developmental toxicity; and 7 ‘no’ and 0 ‘yes’ for female reproductive toxicity; and 5 ‘no’ and 2 ‘yes’ for male reproductive toxicity.

Deltamethrin staff presentation by Poorni Iyer, DVM, Ph.D.

Public comments by:
Stanley Landfair, McKenna Long & Aldridge

Larry Sheets, Ph.D., Bayer CropScience

F. Jay Murray, Ph.D., Murray and Associates on behalf of SC Johnson & Son, Inc.

Gretchen Lee Salter, Breast Cancer Fund

Andria Ventura, Clean Water Action

OVERVIEW OF THE PROCESS FOR PROVIDING REVIEW OF OEHHA PROPOSED MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE DOSE LEVELS

Staff presentation by Carol Monahan-Cummings and Jim Donald, Ph.D. on the process OEHHA uses to develop Maximum Allowable Dose Levels for chemicals that cause reproductive toxicity.

¹ The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is the lead agency for the implementation of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, codified at Health and Safety Code, section 25249.5 et seq. (commonly known as Proposition 65).