Chemicals Listed Effective December 26, 1997 as Known to the State to Cause Reproductive Toxicity: Benzene
The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) of the California Environmental Protection Agency has added one chemical 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). This chemical is listed effective December 26, 1997.
Benzene is listed based on a formal opinion of OEHHA’s Science Advisory Board’s Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant (DART) Identification Committee. At its December 9, 1997 meeting, the Committee determined that benzene was found to have been clearly shown through scientifically valid testing according to generally accepted principles to cause reproductive toxicity. The listing mechanism of the Science Advisory Board’s Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant (DART) Identification Committee is addressed in Title 22, California Code of Regulations, Section 12306.
The reader is directed to the Notice to Interested Parties of the December 9, 1997 Meeting of the Science Advisory Board’s Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant (DART) Identification Committee published in the October 10, 1997 issue of the California Regulatory Notice Register for the supporting documentation which the Committee relied upon in making its determination that benzene has been clearly shown to cause developmental and male reproductive toxicity.
The chemical benzene is listed effective December 26, 1997, and the mechanism under which it is listed is shown below:
Chemicals Known to the State to Cause Reproductive Toxicity
| Chemical |
Type of Reproductive Toxicity |
CAS No. |
Listing mechanism1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benzene |
developmental/male reproductive |
71-43-2 |
SQE |
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1Listing mechanism: SQE - "state’s qualified experts" mechanism
A complete, updated chemical list is published elsewhere in this issue of the California Regulatory Notice Register.
- Benzene