document.write('<table width=100% cellspacing=1 cellpadding=3 border=0><tr><td align=\'Left\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.prop65news.net\/absolutenm\/anmviewer.asp?a=3355&z=12\'><b>CIC to Prioritize 27 Chemicals<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><i>7\/15\/2010<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><i>Prop 65 News<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'>The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has nominated 27 chemical candidates as priorities to be assessed by the Carcinogen Identification Committee (CIC) at its next meeting. <\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.prop65news.net\/absolutenm\/anmviewer.asp?a=3355&z=12\'>Full Story<\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'Left\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.prop65news.net\/absolutenm\/anmviewer.asp?a=3354&z=12\'><b>DTSC Releases Draft Green Chemistry Regulations<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><i>7\/14\/2010<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><i>Prop 65 News<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'>The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has released the highly anticipated draft regulations that propose how California\'s Green Chemistry Initiative will be implemented when the law goes into effect at the beginning of 2011.<\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.prop65news.net\/absolutenm\/anmviewer.asp?a=3354&z=12\'>Full Story<\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'Left\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.prop65news.net\/absolutenm\/anmviewer.asp?a=3356&z=12\'><b>OEHHA Proposes to Limit Scope of its Cadmium MADL<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><i>7\/13\/2010<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><i>Prop 65 News<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'>The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has proposed to add the qualifier &#8220;oral&#8221; to a specific regulatory level having no observable effect for cadmium and amend the cadmium regulation codified under Title 27, California Code of Regulations, Section 25805.  <\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.prop65news.net\/absolutenm\/anmviewer.asp?a=3356&z=12\'>Full Story<\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'Left\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.prop65news.net\/absolutenm\/anmviewer.asp?a=3353&z=12\'><b>State Assembly Passes BPA Ban for Baby Products<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><i>7\/12\/2010<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'>The California State Assembly passed the Toxin-Free Toddlers and Babies Act&#8212;SB 797&#8212;that would ban the polycarbonate chemical bisphenol A (BPA) from baby products, such as canned formula, for children age three and younger on July 1.<\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.prop65news.net\/absolutenm\/anmviewer.asp?a=3353&z=12\'>Full Story<\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'Left\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.prop65news.net\/absolutenm\/anmviewer.asp?a=3352&z=12\'><b>Brown Cracks Down on Tainted Costume Jewelry<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><i>7\/9\/2010<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><i>Prop 65 News<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'>California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr,. on June 30, issued a consumer alert warning of a &quot;serious health hazard&quot; after he demanded that retail stores Rainbow and 5-7-9 remove from their shelves jewelry with parts containing as much as 97% lead, a potentially fatal health hazard, especially for young children the alert said.<\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.prop65news.net\/absolutenm\/anmviewer.asp?a=3352&z=12\'>Full Story<\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'Left\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.prop65news.net\/absolutenm\/anmviewer.asp?a=3351&z=12\'><b>NRDC Sues FDA to Force Ban of BPA<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><i>7\/8\/2010<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><i>Prop 65 News<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'>The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to force the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging, food containers, and other materials likely to come into contact with food.<\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.prop65news.net\/absolutenm\/anmviewer.asp?a=3351&z=12\'>Full Story<\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'Left\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.prop65news.net\/absolutenm\/anmviewer.asp?a=3303&z=12\'><b>Court of Appeal Rules Prop 65 is Preempted by FMIA<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><i>12\/24\/2009<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><i>Prop 65 News<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'>The Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division 1, has ruled that  the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA) preempts Proposition 65 as applied to meat products.  The ruling affirms a pair of San Diego Superior Court, overruling defendant and appellant Whitney Leeman, Ph.D.\'s demurrer and granting summary judgment to plaintiffs the American Meat Institute and the National Meat Association.<\/font><br><font face=\'Arial\' size=\'2\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.prop65news.net\/absolutenm\/anmviewer.asp?a=3303&z=12\'>Full Story<\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><\/table>');