BPA Considered For Listing Under Proposition 65

California's Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), the agency that oversees implementation of California's Proposition 65 (more formally known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986), announced on February 11, 2010, that it is considering adding bisphenol-A (BPA) to the Proposition 65 list of chemicals causing reproductive toxicity. 

In response to a petition from the Natural Resources Defense Council, OEHHA has determined that BPA "appears to meet the criteria for listing" under what is known as the "authoritative bodies" mechanism, based on the findings of the National Toxicology Program's Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (NTP).  In 2008, the NTP published a report on BPA concluding that the chemical causes developmental toxicity at high levels of exposure.