Effective December 4, 2015, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment ("OEHHA") added (i) aloe vera, non-decolorized whole leaf extract, which consists of the liquid portion of the aloe vera leaf and is a natural constituent of the Aloe Barbadensis Miller plant, and (ii) goldenseal root powder, which is a natural constituent of the goldenseal plant, to the list of chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer for purposes of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 ("Proposition 65"). OEHHA justifies the addition of these two chemicals to the list as they both were identified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" with sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals. OEHHA provides further information in a document released this month, where it states the listing is not "route-specific," therefore applying to all routes of exposure.
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