California Health Department

The cities of Berkeley, Long Beach, San Jose, Glendale, Pasadena, and Sacramento follow the state regulations. California apparently permits the use of DDT and presumably other residuals under carefully controlled conditions, as evidenced by the existence of a California State Department of Public Health poster entitled Use of DDT in Food Establishments. This poster suggests that DDT be employed under carefully controlled conditions, which include the use of a nonmisting compressed air spray, limited to wetting surfaces remote from food supplies, utensils, and open flames under adequate ventilation. The oil solutions must not be allowed to remain in contact with the skin. 

California State Department of Health Services, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) study of 4,000 randomly selected adults statewide, first in 1995 and replicated in 1996, in press with American Journal of Epidemiology, 1999. 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2007c). Hazard Evaluation and Technical Assistance Gold Coast Ingredients, Inc., Commerce, California." US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Interim Letter I, March 29, 2007. 

California Department of Health. Air and Industrial Hygiene Laboratory. Calibration and Standardization of Continuous Photometric Analyzers of Atmospheric On-dants. Recommended Method No. 5-B. Berkel California State Department of Health 1970. 18 pp. 

The hazardous waste identification regulations that define the characteristics of toxicity, ignitability, corrosivity, reactivity, and the tests for these characteristics, differ from state to state. In addition, concentration limits may be set out by a state for selected persistent and bioaccumulative toxic substances that commonly occur in hazardous substances. For example, the California Hazardous Waste Control Act requires the California State Department of Health Services (CDHS) to develop and adopt by regulation criteria and guidelines for the identification of hazardous wastes and extremely hazardous wastes. 

TOD MlKURIYA is Director of Research at the Everett A Gladman Memorial Hospital, Oakland, California, and con-suiting psychiatrist to the Alameda County Health Depart ment Drug Abuse Program. 

California Department of Health Services (2004) Standard Practice for the Testing of Volatile Organic Emissions from Various Sources Using Small-Scale Environmental Chambers, California Health and Human Services Agency, California, USA. 

California State Department of Public Health, Method No. CAL/ OSHA L-128. 

Work in the authors laboratory was supported by grants from the Medical Research Council (UK), British Diabetic Association, Scottish Home and Health Department, SERPA and California Metabolic Research Foundation (USA). 

Navonne, R., California State Health Department Branch Laboratory, Los Angeles, personal communication, 1965. 

Schneider, F., K. Steenland, B. Wilson, B. Hernandez, J. Spencer and S. Margetich (1992). Monitoring of Peach Harvest Workers Exposed to Azinphosmethyl Residues in Sutter County, California, 1991, Department of Food and Agriculture. Worker Health and Safety Branch Report HS-1672, Sacramento, CA, USA. 

Dibromochloropropane (DBCP) in California and Hawaii. DBCP has now been found in 2500 private domestic, public, and irrigation wells in California, and was recently found to have leached 400 feet downward through the unsaturated or vadose zone (44). California State Assembly Bill 1803, passed in 1984, requires the state health department to monitor 40 priority pesticides and other organics. The remaining use of DBCP on pineapples in Hawaii was cancelled (45). In a collaborative effort between EPA and USGS,... 

California State Department of Health Services, Berkeley, CA 94704... 

This work was initially funded by the California State Department of Industrial Relations (Contract Mo. 4-6141)> and was subsequently supported by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Grant No. 1 ROl OH 01234-01A1) and the Environmental Protection Agency (Cooperative Agreement CR-810691-01-0). The work could not have been completed without the excellent technical support provided by Sharon Wong and William Gibb. 

There are various sources of additional helpful information on toe safe use of solvents in the workplace. The Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service (HESIS) of California s Department of Health Services has a 50-page document (Using Solvent Safely) that describes methods of using solvents in the workplace. This document includes information on solvents that pose reproductive problems to both women and men. For more information, visit their website on http //www.ohb.org/solvmenu.htm. ... 

University of California Davis Department of Pharmacology 451, Health Sciences Drive Davis, CA 95616 USA... 

California s Department of Health Services, http //www.ohb.org/solvmenu.htm, Oakland, CA, June 1,1997. Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Summary of Environmental Law in North America, Last update October 1,1995, htttp //www.cec.org/infobases/law, Montreal, Canada. 

In January 2009, California s Department of Toxic Substances Control issued a formal chemical information call in letter to 26 entities involved in the manufacturing of carbon nanotubes. The manufacturers have 1 year to respond to the letter under California Health and Safety Code Chapter 60 Yhg requested by the State include information regarding the specific products in which the carbon nanotubes are used quantities used major customers sampling detection and monitoring methods quality assurance and quality control protocols potential enviromnental risks knowledge of the safety of carbon nanotubes in terms of occupational safety, public health, and the enviromnent worker protection methods and environmental protection methods. The letter also poses three questions recipients should carefully consider before answering "When released, does your material constitute a hazardous waste under California Health and Safety Code provisions Are discarded off spec materials a hazardous waste Once discarded are the carbon nanotubes you produce a hazardous waste "... 

Jury Selection One study of grand juries in Alameda County, California, compared the demographic characteristics of jurors with the general population, to see if jury panels were representative. The results for age are shown below. The investigators wanted to know if the 66 jurors were selected at random from the population of Alameda County. (Only persons over 21 are considered the county age distribution is known from Public Health Department data.) The study was published in the UCLA Law Review. 

Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory. 1986. Laboratory Safety Guidelines Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory. California State Department of Health, Berkeley, CA. 

California State Department of Mental Health (1997). Required components for implementation plan Cultural competence plan requirements (Revised) (pp. 1-17). Sacramento. CA Author. 

Department of Nutritional Sciences Toxicology University of California, Berkeley Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan ... 

Catalog of STC andllC Ratings for Wall andEloorj Ceiling Assemblies, Office of Noise Control, California Department of Health Services, Berkeley, Calif., 1984. R. S. Jones, Noise and Vibration Control in Buildings, McGraw-HiU Book Co., Inc., New York, 1984. 

Hazardous Waste Reduction Checklist and Assessment Manualfor the Metal FinishingJndusty, California Department of Health Services, Alternative Technology Division, Toxic Substances Control Program, Sacramento, Calif., 1990. 

Sulfur Polymer Cement. SPC has been proven effective in reducing leach rates of reactive heavy metals to the extent that some wastes can be managed solely as low level waste (LLW). When SPC is combined with mercury and lead oxides (both toxic metals), it interacts chemically to form mercury sulfide, HgS, and lead sulfide, PbS, both of which are insoluble in water. A dried sulfur residue from petroleum refining that contained 600-ppm vanadium (a carcinogen) was chemically modified using dicyclopentadiene and oligomer of cyclopentadiene and used to make SC (58). This material was examined by the California Department of Health Services (Cal EPA) and the leachable level of vanadium had been reduced to 8.3 ppm, well below the soluble threshold limit concentration of 24 ppm (59). 

---