Petitions For and Against Listing BPA Pursuant to the Authoritative Bodies Mechanism

On July 15, 2009, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) received a petition from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) asking that OEHHA initiate the process for listing bisphenol-A (BPA) as a reproductive toxicant under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986

OEHHA also received a petition from the American from the Polycarbonate/BPA Global Group of the American Chemistry Council on the petition submitted by the Natural Resources Defense Council to list bisphenol-A as a reproductive toxicant under Proposition 65.