The Shifting Status of BPA under California's Proposition 65

摘要

The California Environmental Protection Agency's (Cal/EPA) Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) just does not want to give up on trying to include bisphenol A (BPA) on the state's Proposition 65 list of reproductive toxicants. After its Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee (DART-IC) voted unanimously in 2009 against the inclusion of BPA on the state's Proposition 65 list of reproductive toxicants, the office tried earlier this year to include BPA by way of another listing mechanism. However, OEHHA was thwarted once more, as the Sacramento County Superior Court, on April 19, issued a preliminary injunction ordering removal of the listing pending its final determination in a case brought by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) (see ravApril 26, 2013, Page 19).