Monthly Archives: April 2016

On April 8, 2016, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment published a proposed warning level for ethylene glycol of 8,700 micrograms per day.  The deadline for public comments is May 23, 2016. Ethylene glycol, used in antifreeze products and other applications, was listed as a reproductive toxicant via the authoritative bodies mechanism on June 19, 2015 -- meaning that the warning requirement for the substance goes into effect on June 19, 2016. Significantly, the listing was confined to the oral route of exposure. Even so, the listing presented some scientific controversy. Notwithstanding a number of studies showing that no reproductive…

The California Office of Administrative Law has published the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment's revised emergency regulations on bisphenol A, which means that the public comment period for these regulations ends on April 13, 2016. Once finalized, these emergency regulations will establish the safe harbor method for providing Proposition 65 warnings for bisphenol A in canned and bottled foods and beverages. GLO previously reported on OEHHA's emergency regulations on bisphenol A (BPA). BPA was identified as a Proposition 65 reproductive toxicant on May 11, 2015, meaning that the warning requirement becomes effective on May 11, 2016.  This substance is used…