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CA SCR100
Concurrent Resolution
AI Summary
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Urges the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to expeditiously review the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) monograph on processed meat and add "processed meat for consumption" to California's Proposition 65 list of chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.
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References the IARC's formal classification of processed meat as "carcinogenic to humans (Group 1)" in its Agents Classified by the IARC Monographs.
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Affirms that Proposition 65, approved by California voters in 1986, requires the state to publish and maintain a list of chemicals causing cancer or reproductive harm, with the list currently containing approximately 800 chemicals.
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Notes that California law requires substances listed by the IARC as human or animal carcinogens to be added to the Proposition 65 list, and that the relevant IARC monograph was released in March 2018.
Legislative Description
Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986: list of chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity: processed meat.
Last Action
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on EQ.
4/9/2018