We previously reported on several significant actions by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) listing six types of PFAS as chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm - PFOA, PFOS, PFDA, PFHxS, PFNA, and PFUnDA. At the time,...
On Monday, September 19, 2022, Attorney Ryan Landis will present at the Prop 65 Clearinghouse conference in San Francisco, California. His panel discussion, entitled "Res Judicata...Deja Vu, All Over Again", examines a wide variety of Prop 65 related issues, including...
As we wrote in December, 2021 saw several significant actions taken by the state of California with respect to PFAS - specifically, Prop 65 PFAS determinations for PFOS and PFNA. On February 25, 2022, another significant step was taken when the California Office of...
On December 6, 2021, California approved the listing of PFOS, one of the more prominent chemicals in the PFAS class, as a carcinogen under the California Proposition 65 ("Prop 65") laws. Prop 65 and PFOS have a history of prior regulatory steps; however, the...
Last week, California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced that it will hold its annual meeting of the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee (DARTIC), which will be held virtually on December 14, 2021. The...
On September 28, 2021, the state of California (through the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment) held a virtual workshop for proposed Public Health Goals (PHGs) for two types of PFAS - PFOA and PFOS. The release of proposed PHGs is extremely significant...
Please join Attorney Ryan Landis on Monday, September 27, 2021 from 11:20 am - 12:20 pm PST, as he speaks at the prestigious Prop. 65 Conference, which will be held virtually this year. Attorney Landis's topic, Regulatory And Legal Updates Concerning Acrylamide In...
In the span of one week at the end of March 2021, the state of California issued three separate Prop 65 notices on PFAS that will add significant regulatory, compliance and litigation burdens on a wide array of business types. Important to note is that Prop 65...
On February 4, 2021, the U.S. House of Representative's Committee On Oversight and Reform (Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy) issued a report entitled "Baby Foods Are Tainted With Dangerous Levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium and Mercury", which sent ripples...
If your company is using the short-form warnings to comply with California’s Proposition 65 requirements, yet another major change is likely coming that will affect your Prop. 65 compliance plan. The proposed regulatory changes to the widely adopted use of short-form...