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• Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986
  This text contains new statutory language added by Assembly Bill 1756 (Committee on Budget, Chapter 228, Statutes of 2003) which was signed into law by Governor Gray Davis on August 9, 2003. The new language took effect on August 11, 2003.
• Proposition 65 Regulations Moved from Title 22 to Title 27 of the California Code of Regulations
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  Excluding Section 27001 (the list) (formerly Section 12000)

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Proposition 65 Regulations

Pre-rulemaking Activities

• Withdrawal of Regulatory Concept Proposition 65 Regulatory Update Project Possible Amendments to Sections 25801, 25803, and 25805 No Observable Effect Levels
  [05/28/10]

• Proposition 65 Regulatory Update Project Proposed Amendments to Title 27, California Code of Regulations Sections 25801, 25803, and 25805 No Observable Effect Levels
  Request for Public Participation Notice of Public Workshop
  [04/02/10] posted 03/22/10

• Proposition 65 Regulatory Update Project Warnings for Exposures to Listed Chemicals in Foods Opportunity for Public Participation Notice of Public Workshop on September 25, 2009
  [08/28/09]

• Opportunity for Public Comment Proposition 65 Regulatory Update Project Electronic Notice Regulatory Concept
  [07/23/09]

• Proposition 65 Regulatory Update Project Warnings for Exposures to Listed Chemicals in Foods Opportunity for Public Participation Notice of Open Conference Call
  [01/28/09]

• Proposition 65 Regulatory Update Project Regulatory Concepts for Exposures to Human And Plant Nutrients In Human Food Opportunity For Public Participation - Comment Period Extended
  [12/19/08]

• Slides from the Proposition 65 Food Warnings Workshop on 12/03/08 (pdf)
  [12/09/08]
• Regulatory Update Project Warnings for Exposures to Listed Chemicals in Foods Announcement of Workshop and Public Comment Period
  [11/19/08]
• Proposition 65 Regulatory Update Project Regulatory Concepts for Exposures to Human And Plant Nutrients In Human Food: Opportunity for Public Participation, Notice of Second Public Workshop
  [11/03/08]
• Proposition 65 Regulatory Update Project Safe Use Determination Regulation
  [06/20/08]
• Extended Comment Period - Proposition 65 Regulatory Update Project Labor Code Mechanism Regulatory Concept
  [06/18/08]
• Request for Public Participation, Notice of Public Workshop, Proposition 65 Regulatory Update Project - Labor Code Mechanism Regulatory Concept
  [05/16/08]
• Proposition 65 – Regulatory Update Project, Food Exposure Regulation, Stakeholder Workgroup
  [05/09/08]
• Audio, Slides and Comments Available - Proposition 65 Regulatory Update Project, Beneficial Nutrients Regulatory Concept
  [05/07/08]
• Proposition 65 Stakeholder Group, Exposures to Listed Chemicals in Foods
  [04/01/08]
• Title 22 CCR § 12000-14000, Proposition 65 - Changes Without Regulatory Effect - Title 22, Regulatory Update Project
  [03/28/08]
• Request for Public Participation, Notice of Public Workshop - Proposition 65 Regulatory Update Project, Beneficial Nutrients Regulatory Concept
  [03/21/08]
• Proposition 65 Regulatory Update Project Warnings For Exposures To Listed Chemicals In Foods
  [02/15/08]
• Proposition 65 Regulatory Update Project, 2008 Project List
  [01/22/08]
• Public Workshop: Request for Public Participation in a Proposition 65 Regulatory Update Project
  [10/19/07]

Proposed Regulations

• Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Title 27, California Code of Regulations Amendment to Section 25705 Specific Regulatory Levels Posing No Significant Risk: 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene
  [07/30/10]
• Amendment To Section 25705 Specific Regulatory Levels Posing No Significant Risk: Glycidol [07/30/10]
• Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Title 27, California Code of Regulations Amendment to Section 25805 Specific Regulatory Levels: Chemicals Causing Reproductive Toxicity Maximum Allowable Dose Level: Cadmium
  [07/09/10]
• Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Title 27, California Code of Regulations Amendment To Section 25805 Specific Regulatory Levels: Chemicals Causing Reproductive Toxicity - Di-isodecyl Phthalate (DIDP)
  [04/23/10]
• Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Title 27, California Code of Regulations Amendment to Section 25805 Specific Regulatory Levels: Chemicals Causing Reproductive Toxicity: Acrylamide
  [02/26/10]
• Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Title 27, California Code of Regulations Amendment to Section 25705 Specific Regulatory Levels Posing No Significant Risk: p-chloroaniline and p-chloroaniline hydrochloride
  [02/18/10]
• Amendment to Section 25705 Specific Regulatory Levels Posing No Significant Risk - Fumonisin B₁
  [10/09/09]

Final 2010

• Withdrawal of Proposed Amendment to Section 25705(D): Specific Regulatory Level Posing No Significant Risk: Fumonisin B¹
  [06/17/10]
• Notice of Adoption of Text Title 27, California Code of Regulations Amendment of Section 25903 Notices of Violation – Electronic Notice
  [04/12/10]

Archived Regulations 2009

• Notice of Adoption to Text of Regulations Title 27, California Code of Regulations Amendment to Section 25204, Safe Use Determinations
  [08/18/09]
• Notice of Adoption to Text of Regulations Title 27, California Code of Regulations Amendment to Section 25705(b) No Significant Risk Level (NSRL) for Ethylbenzene
  [05/07/09]
• Notice of Adoption to Text of Regulations: Title 27, California Code of Regulations - Amendment to Section 25805, Maximum Allowable Dose Level (MADL) for Di-n-hexyl phthalate (DnHP)
  [01/01/09]

Archived Regulations 2008

• Notice of Adoption to Text of Regulations Title 27, California Code of Regulations Amendment to Section 25705(b) No Significant Risk Level (NSRL) for C.I. Direct Blue 218
  [09/23/08]
• Proposition 65 Warning Regulations Reorganized
  [09/22/08]
• Notice of Adoption to Text of Regulations - Title 27, California Code of Regulations, Amendment to Section 25805: Maximum Allowable Dose Levels (MADL) for Di(n-Butyl)Phthalate (DBP)
  [07/04/08]
• Proposition 65 Regulations Moved from Title 22 to Title 27 of the California Code of Regulations
  [06/18/08]
• Notice of Adoption to Text of Regulations, Title 22, California Code of Regulations, Amendment to Section 12705(b): No Significant Risk Level (NSRL) for Nitromethane
  [04/22/08]

Archived Regulations 2007

• Notice of Adoption to Text of Regulations Title 22, California Code of Regulations Amendment to Section 12805 Maximum Allowable Dose Levels (MADLs) for Ethylene Glycol Monoethyl Ether (EGEE), Ethylene Glycol Monoethyl Ether Acetate (EGEEA), and Potassium Dimethyldithiocarbamate
  [09/27/07]

Archived Regulations 2006

• Notice of Adoption to Text of Regulations Title 22, California Code of Regulations Amendment to Section 12805 Maximum Allowable Dose Levels (MADLs) for Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (by Intravenous Injection)
  [03/21/07]
• Notice of Adoption to Text of Regulations Title 22, California Code of Regulations Amendment to Section 12805 Maximum Allowable Dose Levels (MADLs) for Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (by Oral Exposure)
  [03/21/07]
• NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL OF PROPOSED RULEMAKINGS - ACRYLAMIDE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Government Code section 11347(a), the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is withdrawing the three regulatory proposals listed above, which were submitted on April 8, 2005 to the Office of Administrative Law (OAL).
  [3/28/06]
• Notice of Adoption to Text of Regulations Title 22, California Code of Regulations New Section 12900
  [03/14/06]

Archived Regulations 2005

• Notice of Adoption Title 22, California Code Of Regulations Section 12705. Specific Regulatory Levels Posing No Significant Risk Section 12805. Specific Regulatory Levels: Chemicals Causing Reproductive Toxicity: naphthalene and sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate
  [08/23/05]
• Extension of Public Comment Periods Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Title 22, California Code of Regulations Amendments to Section 12705: Specific Regulatory Levels Posing No Significant Risk Amendments to Section 12601: Clear and Reasonable Warnings
  [06/23/05]
• Workshop on Potential Regulatory Action Exempting from the Proposition 65 Warning Requirements, Exposures from Chemicals that Form from Natural Constituents in Food During Cooking or Heat Processing
  [04/08/05] posted 04/05/05
• Notice of Proposed RulemakingTitle 22, California Code of Regulations Amendments to Section 12601, Clear and Reasonable Warning: Acrylamide
  [04/08/05] posted 04/05/05
• Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Title 22, California Code of Regulations Amendments to Section 12705e, Specific Regulatory Levels Posing No Significant Risk: Acrylamide
  [04/08/05] posted 04/05/05
• Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Title 22, California Code of Regulations Amendments to Section 12705b and c, Specific Regulatory Levels Posing No Significant Risk: Acrylamide
  [04/08/05] posted 04/05/05
• Proposed Regulatory Actions Concerning Acrylamide
  [03/21/05]
• Notice of Repeal of Regulations Title 22, California Code of Regulations Section 12901 Methods of Detection
  [03/12/05]
• Notice of Amendments to Text of Regulations, Title 22, California Code of Regulations, Sections 12705 and 12805: 1,2-dichloropropane, 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane, naphthalene, disodium cyanodithioimidocarbonate, ethyl dipropylthiocarbamate, ethylene glycol monomethyl ether, ethylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate, sodium dimethyldithiocarbamate, methyl bromide as a structural fumigant, and thiophanate-methyl
  [01/13/05]
• All Acrylamide Regulatory Activity

Archived Regulations 2004

• Notice to Interested Parties Amendment to Title 22, California Code of Regulations, Section 12705: benz[a]anthracene, benzene, benzo[b]fluoranthene, benzo[j]fluoranthene, bromoform, chrysene, 7H-dibenzo[c,g]carbazole, dibenzo[a,h]pyrene, dibenzo[a,i]pyrene, and 5-methylchrysene, arsenic (inorganic oxides)
  [06/21/04]
• Notice to Interested Parties Amendment to Section 12705. Specific Regulatory Levels Posing No Significant Risk: benz[a]anthracene, benzene, benzo[b]fluoranthene, benzo[j]fluoranthene, bromoform, chrysene, 7H-dibenzo[c,g]carbazole, dibenzo[a,h]pyrene, dibenzo[a,i]pyrene, and 5-methylchrysene
  Amendment to Section 12805. Specific Regulatory Levels: Reproductive Toxicants: Arsenic
  [05/03/04]
• Notice to Interested Parties Amendment to Section 12705. Specific Regulatory Levels Posing No Significant Risk: benzofuran, N-carboxymethyl-N-nitrosourea, p-chloro-o-toluidine hydrochloride, 3,3'-dimethoxybenzidine; 3,3'-dimethoxybenzidine dihydrochloride, 3,3'-dimethylbenzidine, 3,3'-dimethylbenzidine dihydrochloride, isobutyl nitrite, 2-methylaziridine (propyleneimine), nalidixic acid, phenyl glycidyl ether, o-phenylenediamine, o-phenylenediamine dihydrochloride, tetranitromethane, and 2,6-xylidine
  Amendment to Section 12805. Specific Regulatory Levels: Reproductive Toxicants: linuron
  [05/03/04]

Archived Regulations 2003

• Amendment to Section 12805 Specific Regulatory Levels: Reproductive Toxicants, 2,4-D butyric acid (2,4-DB, 2,4-dichlorophenoxybutyric acid), m-dinitrobenzene, hydramethylnon and N-methylpyrrolidone
  [07/09/03]
• Notice of Amendments to Text of Regulations, Title 22, California Code of Regulations, Section 12204 (renumbered from Section 12104)
  [06/04/03]
• Notice of Revised Time for the Public Hearing for Proposed Amendments to Title 22, California Code of Regulations, Section 12805, Specific Regulatory Levels: Chemicals Causing Reproductive Toxicity
  [03/28/03]
• Notice to Interested Parties Amendment to Section 12705. Specific Regulatory Levels Posing No Significant Risk Amendment to Section 12805. Specific Regulatory Levels: Reproductive Toxicants: benzofuran, N-carboxymethyl-N-nitrosourea, p-chloro-o-toluidine hydrochloride, 3,3'-dimethoxybenzidine; 3,3'-dimethoxybenzidine dihydrochloride, 3,3'-dimethylbenzidine, 3,3'-dimethylbenzidine dihydrochloride, isobutyl nitrite, 2-methylaziridine (propyleneimine), nalidixic acid, phenyl glycidyl ether, o-phenylenediamine, o-phenylenediamine dihydrochloride, tetranitromethane, 2,6-xylidine, linuron
  [02/25/03]
• Notice to Interested Parties Notice of Amendments to Text of Regulations Title 22, California Code of Regulations Preamble to Division 2, Chapter 3, Article 1 and Sections 12102 - 12302, 12304 - 12504, 12601, 12701, 12705, 12709, 12711, 12721 - 14000
  [02/06/03]

Archived Regulations 2002

• Notice to Interested Parties Notice of Amendments to Text of Regulations: Title 22, California Code of Regulations Sections 12601 and 12201
  [09/05/02]
• Notice to Interested Parties Notice of Modifications to Text of Regulations: Title 22, California Code of Regulations Sections 12705 and 12805: benzene, cadmium, di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP), lead, lead acetate, lead phosphate and lead subacetate
  [07/24/02]
• Notice to Interested Parties Public Workshop, Solicitation of Input on the Second Set of Proposed Clarifying Regulations
  [02/28/02]

Archived Regulations 2001

• Notice to Interested Parties Public Workshop / Solicitation of Input on The First Set of Proposed Clarifying Regulations
  [10/02/01]
• Notice to Interested Parties Decision on Advanced Medical Technology Association's Petition for Amendment of Regulation
  [02/09/01]

Archived Regulations 1997

• Notice to Interested Parties Adoption of Section 12903 Notices of Violation.
  [05/14/97]