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On October 27, 2023, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) issued a Proposed Rulemaking to amend the warning requirements under Proposition 65 (otherwise known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986).  The proposal, if enacted, would revise both the standard long-form and short-form warning requirements, as well as the warning requirements for products purchased from the internet or from catalogs.  More information on the prop

The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee (DARTIC) voted 9-0 in favor of listing bisphenol S (BPS) as a reproductive toxicant (female reproductive endpoint) under Proposition 65 at its December 12 meeting.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on November 7, 2023, that California cannot require cancer warning labels for glyphosate under Proposition 65. The ruling, in National Association of Wheat Growers et al. v.

On October 27, 2023, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) issued a Proposed Rulemaking to amend the warning requirements under Proposition 65 (otherwise known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986).

As proposed, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has finally adopted a No Significant Risk Level (NSRL) for antimony trioxide of 0.13 microgram (µg) per day by the inhalation route. California’s Office of Administrative Law approved the rulemaking and filed it with the Secretary of State on October 3, 2023. The effective date for the NSRL is January 1, 2024.

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced that it is limiting its proposed Proposition 65 No Significant Risk Level (NSRL) for antimony trioxide of 0.13 micrograms per day to the inhalation route.

On June 8, 2023, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced it will not proceed with the Proposition 65 listing process for antimony (trivalent compounds) as a substance known to cause cancer. OEHHA had announced on September 30, 2022, that it intended to list antimony (trivalent compounds) as a carcinogen under Proposition 65 pursuant to the “Labor Code” listing mechanism.

On April 7, 2023, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) proposed lowering the "No Significant Risk Level" (NSRL) from ethylene oxide from 2 to 0.058 micrograms (µg) per day under the state’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, also known as Proposition 65. Ethylene oxide is listed as a carcinogen under Proposition 65.

The California Carcinogen Identification Committee (CIC) rejected the listing of bisphenol A (BPA) as a carcinogen under Proposition 65 (Prop 65) at its December 14, 2022, meeting. (More information on that meeting can be found here.)

California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced that it intends to list antimony (trivalent compounds) as a carcinogen under Proposition 65 pursuant to the “Labor Code” listing mechanism. The Labor Code listing is based on the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) conclusion that antimony (trivalent compounds) is “probably carcinogenic to humans” (Group 2A).