Litigation
05/17/13 - The following bills will be monitored this legislative season. The most controversial bill is so far appears to be Assembly person Mike Gatto's AB 227. After it was introduced to alter Proposition 65 by allowing targets of Prop. 65 sixty-day notices to avoid any ensuing litigation by correcting the violation within 14 days after receiving the notice, Governor Jerry Brown proposed reforming the 26 year old initiative....
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OEHHA
05/17/13 - In March the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment issued a notice-of-intent to list (NOIL) "hydrogen cyanide and cyanide salts" as reproductive toxicants under Proposition 65. The agency also proposed a safe harbor level for exposure to the chemicals. The CN Council, which represents hydrogen cyanide manufacturers and distributors, has responded to the NOIL with a comment arguing that OEHHA's proposal is flawed in failing to define what is meant by "cyanide salts" and in relying on a 2010 U.S. EPA risk assessment as a basis for the listing. ...
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Litigation
05/17/13 - A Sacramento Superior Court judge has granted the Attorney General's request to dismiss a complaint by three clients of The Chanler Group arguing that the AG's regulation requiring Proposition 65 private plaintiffs to serve the AG with a proposed settlement at least 45 days prior to the motion to approve the settlement violates the state Constitution. ...
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Chemicals of Interest
05/16/13 - NBC Dateline has posted the responses from various industry companies regarding NBC's previous reporting on Bisphenol A (BPA)...
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NTP
05/15/13 - A peer-review panel convened by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) unanimously recommended that two widely used industrial chemicals, cumene and 1-bromopropane, be classified as reasonably anticipated human carcinogens....
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Legislative
05/12/13 - The Brown Administration on May 7th released a list of what are so far conceptual proposals for reforming Proposition 65. The proposals were announced by Cal/EPA Secretary Matt Rodriquez in a telephone conference with the media....
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Products of Interest
05/10/13 - Silver tooth fillings have been placed in the mouths of Americans since before the Civil War, an inexpensive, durable and reliable material that helped form the foundation of modern dentistry. For nearly as long, they have also been a source of controversy.
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Products of Interest
05/10/13 - Potassium bromate has been banned in many countries including the United Kingdom in 1990 and Canada in 1994, more than 19 years ago....
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Products of Interest
05/06/13 - An exposé appearing in March on CCTV's Weekly Quality Report alleged that the damping material used inside Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi may cause cancer. According to a report appearing in the Beijing Times, all three manufacturers have issued responses to the program's claims, saying that they are currently conducting internal investigations....
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Products of Interest
05/06/13 - For at least two months, Google employees were exposed to excessive levels of a hazardous chemical after workers disabled a critical part of the ventilation system at the company's new satellite campus on a Superfund toxic waste site, records show....
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