Posts Tagged: OEHHA

Pending regulation on EtO puts California patient care at risk

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by LUCY FRAISER posted 10.06.2023

OPINION: EtO sterilizes 20 billion, roughly half, of all medical devices in the U.S. annually. It’s the only viable method for many devices, key to preventing serious and even fatal infection in just about every medical procedure. While some risk exists from this substance at high levels under certain circumstances, regulating it out of use for this purpose would be far worse for public health.

On BPA, California contradicts global health experts

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by BRUCE CHASSY posted 03.14.2016

The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has issued shocking assertions about the dangers of Bisphenol-A (BPA). In one sense they are right, their research findings are shocking – but only because they contradict the published scientific literature on BPA safety as well as the opinions of credible global health experts, including our own United State Food and Drug Administration (FDA).