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The final report presents the available information on neurobehavioral effects of synthetic food dyes from studies in children and from studies in experimental animals.
| Program: Risk Assessment
A state report released today finds that consumption of synthetic food dyes can result in hyperactivity and other neurobehavioral problems in some children, and that children vary in their sensitivity to synthetic food dyes.
| Program: Risk Assessment
At the request of the Dow Chemical Company, OEHHA hereby extends the request for information on 1,3-dichloropropene that will inform OEHHA’s development of a safe harbor level for this chemical. The request for information will now close on Wednesday, May 26, 2021.
| Program: Proposition 65
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 Chromium (Trivalent) and Inorganic Water-Soluble Trivalent Chromium Compounds (Cr(III)).
| Program: Air
We will gather remotely to hear and collect perspectives and information on the climate change impacts being experienced by tribal communities in Southern California
| Program: Climate Change
We will gather remotely to hear and collect perspectives and information on the climate change impacts being experienced by tribal communities in Lake, Sonoma, and Mendocino Counties.
| Program: Climate Change
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has selected perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and its salts and transformation and degradation precursors (referred to hereafter as “this chemical”) for the Carcinogen Identification Committee's (CIC) review for possible listing under Proposition 65.
| Program: Proposition 65
California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has selected perfluorodecanoic acid (PFDA) and its salts, perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS) and its salts, perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA) and its salts, and perfluoroundecanoic acid (PFUnDA) and its salts for the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee's (DARTIC) review for possible listing under Proposition 65
| Program: Proposition 65
A meeting of the Proposition 65 Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee (DARTIC), DARTIC provided the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) with its advice concerning the relative priority of 22 chemicals (or chemical groups) for possible consideration for listing at future meetings of the DARTIC.
| Program: Proposition 65