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Arsenic (inorganic oxides) and Cadmium Listed As Known to the State of California to Cause Reproductive Toxicity

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) of the California Environmental Protection Agency has added two chemicals 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). These chemicals are listed effective May 1, 1997.

The two chemicals are listed based on the formal opinion of OEHHA Science Advisory Board's Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant (DART) Identification Committee. At its December 4, 1996 meeting, the Committee determined that these two chemicals were 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 4, 1996 Meeting of the Science Advisory Board's Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant (DART) Identification Committee published in the October 4, 1996 issue of the California Regulatory Notice Register for the supporting documentation which the Committee relied upon in making its determination that the criteria for listing under the state's qualified experts have been satisfied.

The two chemicals are listed effective May 1, 1997, and the mechanism under which each is listed, is shown below:

Reproductive Toxicants

Chemical Type of Reproductive Toxicity CAS No. Listing mechanism1
Arsenic (inorganic oxides) developmental --- SQE
Cadmium developmental/male reproductive --- SQE

1Listing mechanism:
SQE - "state's qualified experts" mechanism