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Fish advisory issued today for Prado Lake in San Bernardino County provides safe eating advice for black bass species, Channel Catfish, Common Carp, sunfish species, and Threadfin Shad.

OEHHA, the City of Elk Grove and a team of hydrologists examined the potential environmental risks associated with the use of dry wells. Infiltration of stormwater runoff through dry wells with pretreatment may pose little risk to groundwater quality.

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment is recommending that the State Water Resources Control Board set the notification level for perfluorohexane sulfonic acid at the lowest level at which it can be reliably detected in drinking water using currently available and appropriate technologies.

Information on how CalEnviroscreen uses pollution burden and population characteristics to calculate the CalEnviroscreen score.

The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has selected bisphenol S (BPS) for the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee  review for possible listing under Proposition 65 and is soliciting information relevant to the assessment of its reproductive toxicity.

The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) intends to list perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) (CAS RN 335-67-1) as known to the state to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65).  This action is being proposed pursuant to the “Authoritative Bodies” listing mechanism.

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The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has selected bisphenol A (BPA) for the Carcinogen Identification Committee (CIC)’s review for possible listing under Proposition 65.

A meeting of the Proposition 65 Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee (DARTIC) was held via webcast and webinar on December 14, 2021. The main agenda items were committee consideration of perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA) and its salts and perfluorodecanoic acid (PFDA) and its salts as known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity (based on male reproductive toxicity)

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is releasing a draft document for public review, summarizing the toxicity and derivation of proposed Reference Exposure Levels (RELs) for 1-Bromopropane (1-BP). The posting of the document will commence a 45-day public review period that will end on February 22, 2022.  A remote public workshop will be held virtually on January 26, 2022 at 10:00 AM using the Zoom platform.