Monthly Archives: March 2015

On March 25, 2015, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment will be holding a public hearing on its proposed Proposition 65 warning regulations. The meeting, which begins at 10 am, will be held at the Sacramento Cal/EPA headquarters building located at 1001 I Street.  OEHHA is allotting only two hours for this meeting.  At 1:30 pm at the same location, OEHHA will hold a public hearing on the proposed Proposition 65 website.  That hearing is scheduled to end at 4 pm.  Written comments are due by April 8, 2015. GLO previously reported on these regulatory developments, which will…

On February 27, 2015, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment published a Notice of Intent to List styrene as a Proposition 65 carcinogen under the authoritative bodies mechanism.  This is the third time that OEHHA has attempted to list styrene. Comments on the proposed listing must be submitted by March 30, 2015. OEHHA first attempted to list styrene in 2009 under the Labor Code mechanism. That proposed listing was challenged in court, on the basis that the underlying scientific conclusion about the chemical's carcinogenicity, developed by the National Toxicology Program (NTP), was based on "less than sufficient" evidence in…

With the June 1, 2015 deadline looming for compliance with the 2012 Globally Harmonized System amendments to the Hazard Communication Standard, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued an enforcement guidance document that may spell relief for those companies which are unable to obtain necessary information from their upstream suppliers. This enforcement guidance applies only to manufacturers, importers and distributors of chemical mixtures, with respect to their hazard classifications and development of safety data sheets (and for distributors, SDS transmission) and labels. Under the new guidance, such entities will not be cited for failing to meet the applicable deadline, if…