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Lisa R. Burchi, expert on Proposition 65 the 1986 California allowed consumer’s or worker’s right to know whether a product or work space might present exposures to chemical carcinogens or reproductive toxins, 36 years label warning on products are found in and out of the state of California.

California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment announced lapse of rulemaking process for proposed modifications to the Proposition 65. OEHHA did not complete process in California law permitted time, stated intention to restart process with new proposal soon.

Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment OEHHA issued a Notice of Modification to Proposed Regulation on Safe Harbor Warnings for Glyphosate to Rulemaking File. OEHHA first proposed this regulation by publishing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on July 23, 2021.

The agency governing Proposition 65, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment OEHHA, proposed its second amendment to the content and conditions for use associated with the widely-used short-form warning permitted under Proposition 65.

Acrylamide is listed under Proposition 65 as a carcinogen and reproductive toxin. Proposition 65 requires businesses to warn Californians about significant exposures to chemicals it has determined to cause cancer, congenital disabilities, or other reproductive harm.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools held off Monday on distributing clear backpacks, purchased by the district to keep guns out of schools, after discovering warning tags required in California. Those tags indicate the plastic could contain hazardous chemicals.

March 29, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California granted CalChamber's preliminary injunction to temporarily bar litigants from enforcing Proposition 65 against businesses that do not warn consumers that acrylamide in food is known to cause cancer. 

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State Attorney General Rob Bonta filed suit against an East Oakland foundry Tuesday,...

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment OEHHA proposed modifications to the revisions it first proposed on January 8, 2021, to its Proposition 65 Prop 65 Article 6 clear and reasonable warnings regulations for short-form warnings.