Held v. C.R.A. Int'l Industrial Inc., et al.

On April 25, 2012, the Marin County Superior Court entered a Consent Judgment in Held v. C.R.A. Int'l Industrial, Inc., et al., which resolved citizen enforcer Anthony E. Held, Ph.D., P.E.'s allegations that the defendant C.R.A. Int'l Industrial Inc. ("C.R.A.") sold footwear containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate ("DEHP") in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

As part of the settlement, C.R.A. agreed not to sell any footwear in California after April 25, 2012, unless such footwear complies with reformulation standards set forth in section 2.1 (a) of the Consent Judgment. C.R.C. also agreed to place proposition 65 warnings on the covered products it did not reformulate..

The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $30,500, divided therein between civil penalties, 75% of which are paid to California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and compensation to whistleblower Held and his counsel for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.