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- Service Available: Free on-line training on Recognition, Management, and Reporting of Pesticide Illness.
After completion, providers will be able to claim 1 hour CMA credit through COEH. - California Biomonitoring Program
- The Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder Contest
- Availability of Hazard Identification Materials for
2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene
[08/15/08] - Request for Relevant Information on a Chemical to be Considered by the OEHHA Science Advisory Board’s Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant (DART) Identification Committee
Extension of Public Comment Period - Caffeine
[08/15/08]
- Updated Safe Eating Guidelines For Fish and Shellfish from the Sacramento River and Northern Delta (Solano, Sacramento, Yolo, Sutter, Colusa, Yuba, Glenn, Butte, Tehama, And Shasta Counties)
[08/13/08] - Availability of Hazard Identification Materials for N,N-Dimethylformamide and Announcement of November 5, 2008 Carcinogen Identification Committee Meeting
[08/08/08] - Chemicals Listed Effective August 1, 2008 as Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity: gallium arsenide, hexafluoroacetone, nitrous oxide and vinyl cyclohexene dioxide
[08/01/08] - Initiation of Risk Assessments for Chemicals in Drinking Water
[07/30/08] - California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program Scientific Guidance Panel Meeting - Save the Date!
[07/30/08] - Announcement of Public Comment Period: Draft Technical Support Document on Proposed Public Health Goals for Bromate, Lead, Pentachlorophenol, and Trichloroethylene in Drinking Water
[07/24/08] - Notice of Intent to List Chemicals Extension of Public Comment Period: Molinate
[07/23/08] - Notice of Intent to List Chemicals Extension of Public Comment Period: Avermectin B1
[07/23/08] - Chemicals Under Consideration For Possible Listing Via The Authoritative Bodies Mechanism: Request For Relevant Information - EXTENSION OF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, Imazalil and Thiabendazole and Its Hypophosphite Salt
[07/23/08] - Impervious Surface Analysis: Facts Sheet
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