Comment Period on Potential Prop. 65 Chemicals Extended Again

California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)
has extended until April 6, 2012, the public comment period for several
chemicals, including benzophenone, a substance used in plastic packaging
as a UV blocker, that the agency is considering adding to the list of chemicals
known to the state to cause cancer (Prop. 65) under the Labor Code
mechanism. An interested party apparently requested the extension. Because
these are “ministerial listings,” OEHHA has indicated that comments should
be limited “to whether the International Agency for Research on Cancer has
identified the specific chemical or substance as a known or potential human
or animal carcinogen.”