[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: "California appellate judge confirms state agency’s limits on perchlorate"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

California appellate judge confirms state agency’s limits on perchlorate
The decision upholds a state agency's limits on the presence of the chemical in the state's water supply.

ERIC BURKETT 
Courthouse News Service
March 23, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO — An appeals court in Sacramento on Thursday upheld a California environmental agency’s standards for limiting the presence of the chemical perchlorate in the state’s drinking water.

In the appeal brought by plaintiff California Manufacturers and Technology Association, Judge Andrea Hoch ruled the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment properly considered iodide uptake inhibition and established its public health goal “at the level at which no known or anticipated adverse effects on health occur, with an adequate margin of safety.”

Perchlorate, a chemical both manufactured and naturally occurring, is regarded as a potentially serious threat to human health by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as well as numerous other agencies in the United States. In its manufactured form it’s widely used in road safety flares, fireworks, matches, explosives, common batteries and — most notably — rocket fuel. It can leach into the ground and groundwater, remaining there potentially for decades. Perchlorate contamination has been identified in at least 20 states.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.courthousenews.com/california-appellate-judge-confirms-state-agencys-limits-on-perchlorate/

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Lenny Siegel
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