Tag: Prop. 65
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Environmental Group Files Prop. 65 Notice of Violation to Enforce 4-MEI Warnings
The Center for Environmental Health has filed a notice of violation under California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act (Prop. 65) to inform the manufacturer and retailers of several carbonated soft drinks containing caramel coloring that it will file a citizen enforcement lawsuit against them for violating Prop. 65’s warning provision since January 7,…
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OEHHA Considers Adding Flavorings to Prop. 65 List
California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has proposed adding two food and beverage flavorings, as well as a fungicide and an herbicide contaminant to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Prop. 65).Comments are requested by April…
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California Adopts No Significant Risk Level for 4-MEI
California’s Office of Administrative Law has approved a no significant risk level for the chemical 4-Methylimidazole (4-MEI) proposed by California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA). Beginning February 8, 2012, no Proposition 65 warning will be required for exposures to 4-MEI at or below 29 micrograms per day. The action follows a December…
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Court Dismisses Challenge to OEHHA’s Listing of 4-MEI as Carcinogen Under Prop. 65
A California court has determined that California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) complied with the law in determining that 4-methylimidazole (4-MEI), a chemical present in many common foods and beverages, is a carcinogen known to the state to cause cancer. Cal. League of Food Processors v. OEHHA, No. 34-2011-80000784 (Cal. Super. Ct.,…
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California Agency Changes Animal Cancer Conversion Calculation
The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has issued a notice addressing its amendment to “the calculation used to convert estimates of animal cancer potencyto estimates of human cancer potency, which is used to calculate no significant risk levels for carcinogens listed under Proposition 65.” According to the notice, the amendment…
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ELF Sues Food and Beverage Companies for Lead in Products for Babies
An environmental and public-health advocacy organization has filed a Proposition 65 lawsuit against numerous food and beverage producers in a California state court, alleging failure to warn the public that their baby and toddler foods and fruit juices contain lead, a chemical known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity or cancer. Envtl. Law Found.…
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OEHHA to Consider Inclusion of BPA on Prop. 65 List
The Carcinogen Identification Committee of California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) will meet October 12-13, 2011, to consider, among other matters, whether bisphenol A (BPA) should be designated as a high priority for preparation of hazard identification materials and further considered for inclusion on the state’s list of chemicals known to cause…
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OEHHA Requests Input on Prioritizing BPA Under Prop. 65 Procedures
California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has announced that its Carcinogen Identification Committee will discuss whether 39 chemicals should be prioritized “for possible preparation of hazard identification materials” during the committee’s October 12-13, 2011, meeting. While no decision will be made at this meeting about adding the chemicals to California’s Proposition 65…