Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech,
Administrative/Regulatory
Aug. 14, 2020
Agency in charge of Proposition 65 has lost its way
The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is the scientific agency that is responsible for administering the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, aka Prop 65. However, over the few past decades, OEHHA has abandoned its duty to protect public health and now only serves to protect industrial interests.
Raphael Metzger
Principal
Metzger Law Group
Phone: (562) 437-4499
Email: rmetzger@toxictorts.com
Raphael Metzger is the principal of the Metzger Law Group, a boutique toxic tort litigation firm in Long Beach that represents about 250 immigrant fabricators who suffer from silicosis. Metzger filed the first such case and has led the litigation since its inception. His firm has also filed a class action on behalf of all workers exposed to engineered stone dust in California to obtain medical monitoring to detect silicosis and other lethal diseases that are caused by engineered stone.
The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is the scientific agency that is responsible for administering the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, commonly known as Proposition 65. However, over the few past decades, OEHHA has abandoned its duty to protect public health and now only serves to protect industrial interests. Just this month, the agency proposed a new regulation that carries on this most undistinguished legacy, by propo...
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