Chemical Listed Effective March 10, 2000 as Known to the State to Cause Reproductive Toxicity: Methyl Chloride

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) of the California Environmental Protection Agency is adding one chemical, methyl chloride, to the list of chemicals known to the State to cause reproductive toxicity for purposes of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65). The listing of this chemical is effective March 10, 2000 pursuant to an administrative listing mechanism provided under Proposition 65, based upon a formal identification by an authoritative body that the chemical causes reproductive toxicity. Regulations governing the listing of chemicals under the "authoritative bodies" mechanism are published in Title 22, California Code of Regulations, Section 12306.

The reader is directed to the Notice of Intent to List Chemicals published in the March 19, 1999 issue of the California Regulatory Notice Register (Register 99, No. 12-Z) for the supporting documentation which OEHHA relied upon in making its determination that the criteria for administrative listing had been satisfied. A complete, updated chemical list is published elsewhere in this issue of the California Regulatory Notice Register.

The chemical being listed under Proposition 65 as known to cause reproductive toxicity is shown below:

Chemical Reference

• Methyl Chloride

Related Notices

• Notice of Intent to List 21 Chemicals

  Mar 19, 1999
• Change to Basis for Identification of Male Reproductive Toxicity as an Endpoint of Reproductive Toxicity for Methyl Chloride

  Mar 7, 2014

Footnotes and References

¹Listing mechanism:
AB - "authoritative bodies" mechanism (22 CCR Section 12306)