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Prop. 65 Annual Conference
Monday, August 31, 2026
Julia Morgan Ball Room
Merchant Exchange Building
465 California Street, 15th Floor
San Francisco, CA

 

Agenda

Arrival

7:30 to 9:00
Registration and Continental Breakfast

Pre-Conference Classes

8:00 to 9:00
Compliance 101: How to Comply with Proposition 65
An overview of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessments regulations.

Instructors:
Sophie Castillo, Partner, Keller & Heckman LLP
Corey Friedman, Staff Counsel, OEHHA
Emily Goswami, Principal Scientist, Roux Associates
Meredyth Merrow, Attorney, Lexington Law Group

8:00 to 9:00
Freshman Orientation
An overview of filing a Proposition 65 case and the Attorney General's guidelines for private party settlements.
Note: This class is in-person only, it will not be recorded.

Instructors:
Rafael Hurtado, Deputy Attorney General
Joseph Mann, Attorney, Lexington Law Group
Rick Rothman, Partner, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

Plenary Session

9:00 to 9:15
Welcome to the Conference

Fiona Smith, Writer, Prop. 65 Clearinghouse

9:15 to 10:00
Opening Address

Kris Thayer, Director of OEHHA and Conference Chair with
Gabe Allen, Chief Counsel, OEHHA

10:00 to 11:00
Understanding Proposition 65's Impacts: Costs, Benefits, and Public Health Outcomes

Moderator:
Tina Cox, Proposition 65 Implementation Chief, OEHHA
Panel:
Steve Kooy, Technical Director Health & Sustainability, BIFMA
Jennifer Ohayon, Research Scientist, Silent Spring Institute
Judah Prero, Counsel, ArentFox Schiff
Mark Todzo, Partner, Lexington Law Group
Tracey Woodruff, Professor of Epidemiology & Population Health, Stanford

11:00 to 11:15
Break

11:15 to 12:15
Modernizing Proposition 65: New Approaches to Warnings

Moderator:
Laura Zuckerman, Supervising Deputy Attorney General
Panel:
Trent Norris, Partner, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP
Jonathan Hewitt, Senior VP State Affairs, Consumer Brands
Kristi Morioka, Staff Counsel, OEHHA
Laralei Paras, Partner, Seven Hills LLP

12:30 to 1:30
Lunch

1:45 to 2:45
Food Cases Under Proposition 65: Litigation Trends and Trial Lessons

Moderator:
Dennis Raglin, Shareholder, Carlton Fields
Panel:
Robert Boone, Partner, Maschoff Brennan
Jake Schulte, Attorney, Entorno Law
Jenny Singh, Partner, Amin Wasserman Gurnani
Meg Whittaker, Managing Director & Chief Toxicologist, ToxServices LLC
Reuben Yeroushalmi, Attorney, Consumer Advocacy Group

2:45 to 3:45
BPS and Regrettable Substitution: Reformulation, Enforcement, and Fallout

Moderator:
Justin Burmeister, Director of Chemistry & Business Innovation, ATS Lab
Panel:
Arlene Blum, Founder & Executive Director, Green Science Policy Institute
Jeff Margulies, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
Mark Todzo, Partner, Lexington Law Group
Will Wagner, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP

3:45 to 4:00
Break

Breakout Sessions

4:00 to 5:00
Proposition 65 Compliance in Practice: Supply Chain, Testing, and Real-World Challenges

Moderator:
Peg Toledo, Mediator, Signature Resolution
Panel:
Bernard Beckerman, Principal Scientist, RETRA LLC
Greg Berlin, Partner, Alston & Bird
Kimberly Gates Johnson, Partner, Seven Hills LLP
Judith Praitis, Partner, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath

4:00 to 5:00
State vs. Federal Chemical Rules: Multi-State Momentum, Preemption, and Compliance

Moderator:
Malcolm Weiss, Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Panel:
Alexander Avery, Associate, Steptoe LLP
Joseph Daniels, Director, Chemical Management, American Chemistry Council
Mike Easter, Principal, EnSIGHT
Avinash Kar, Senior Director, Toxics, Environmental Health, NRDC
Martha Sandy, Chief, Reproductive and Cancer Hazard Assessment Branch, OEHHA

5:00 to 6:00
Networking Cocktail Reception
         Co-Hosted by Signature Resolution