Risk Assessment

Risk assessment is a scientific process of evaluating the adverse effects caused by a substance, activity, lifestyle, or natural phenomenon. OEHHA is responsible for developing and providing risk managers in state and local government agencies with toxicological and medical information relevant to decisions involving public health. State agency users of such information include all boards and departments within Cal/EPA, as well as the Department of Public Health, the Department of Food and Agriculture, the Office of Emergency Services, the Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the Department of Justice.

Several laws and regulations govern OEHHA's risk assessment work.

Reports, Notices, Documents

In 2013 speakers from Children’s Environmental Health Research Centers, Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units on the West Coast and OEHHA gathered to discuss children’s exposure to chemicals, how the environment changes the development of the brain and nervous system in children and childhood leukemia.

Cyanotoxin concentrations at which no adverse effects are expected to occur. The
risk assessment includes two parts: toxicity assessment and exposure assessment.

: Green Chemistry

The State of California passed two new laws to begin implementation of a green chemistry program.

Speaker’s topics included children’s exposure to chemicals, how the environment changes the development of the brain and nervous system in children, and childhood leukemia.

OEHHA held its Children's Environmental Health Symposium on Emerging Research and Implications for Risk Assessment and Policy.