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OEHHA’s mission: Protect and enhance public health and the environment by scientific evaluation of risks posed by hazardous substances. Learn more about OEHHA here.

What's New

• Children's Environmental Health - The California Environmental Protection Agency's (Cal/EPA) Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is hereby designated as the lead entity within the Agency to coordinate and manage the Children's Environmental Health Program
  [02/22/12]
• Proposition 65 - Extension of Public Comment Period For Chemicals Being Considered For Listing By The Labor Code Mechanism: Benzophenone, Coconut oil diethanoamine condensate (cocamide diethanolamine), Diethanolamine, and 2-Methylimidazole
  [02/21/12]
• Fact Sheets - Arsenic (and its compounds) A Fact Sheet
  [02/21/12]

• Proposition 65 - Chemical Listed Effective February 17, 2012 As Known To The State Of California To Cause Reproductive Toxicity: Methyl isopropyl Ketone
  [02/17/12]

• Fish - A guide to eating American shad, Chinook (king) salmon, steelhead trout, striped bass, and white sturgeon caught in California rivers, estuaries, and coastal waters
  [02/15/12]

• Press Release - OEHHA Fish Health Advisory: Young Women and Children Should Avoid Eating Striped Bass and White Sturgeon
  [02/15/12]

• Fish - Safe Eating Guidelines for Fish from the Lower American River (Sacramento County)
  updated [02/15/12]

• Fish - Safe Eating Guidelines for Fish and Shellfish from the Central and South Delta
  updated [02/15/12]

• Fish - Safe Eating Guidelines for Fish from the San Joaquin River (San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, Madera, and Fresno Counties)
  updated [02/15/12]

• Fish - Safe Eating Guidelines for Fish from the Lower Feather River (Butte, Yuba And Sutter Counties)
  updated [02/15/12]

• Fish - Safe Eating Guidelines for Fish and Shellfish from the Lower Cosumnes River (Sacramento County)
  updated [02/15/12]

• Fish - Health Advisory: Safe Eating Guidelines for Fish from the Lower Mokelumne River (Sacramento County)
  updated [02/15/12]

• Fish - Safe Eating Guidelines for Fish from the Mokelumne River at Lodi Lake (San Joaquin County)
  updated [02/15/12]

• Fish - Safe Eating Guidelines For Fish and Shellfish from the Sacramento River and Northern Delta (Solano, Sacramento, Yolo, Sutter, Colusa, Yuba, Glenn, Butte, Tehama, And Shasta Counties)
  updated [02/08/12]

• Biomonitoring California - March 16, 2012 Biomonitoring California Scientific Guidance Panel Meeting, Oakland, CA
  [02/14/12]
• Fact Sheets- 4-Methylimidazole (4-MEI) A Fact Sheet
  [02/13/12]
• Proposition 65 - Request For Relevant Information On Chemicals Being Considered For Listing By The Authoritative Bodies Mechanism: Isopyrazam, Beta-Myrcene, Pulegone, And 3,3',4,4'-Tetrachloroazobenzene
  [02/10/12]
• Free Training Available - The California Medical Supervision Program for Physicians Who Supervise Workers Exposed to Cholinesterase-Inhibiting Pesticides. This 60 minute course will explain what this program is and include information on which workers have to be monitored, how they should be monitored, when it is necessary to remove them from working with these types of pesticides, and when they would be allowed to resume their work duties if they were removed from them. After completion, providers will be able to claim 1 hour CMA credit through COEH.
  

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