Vinocur v. Western Recreation Industries, Inc.

On April 3, 2019, citizen enforcer Laurence Vinocur and settling party Western Recreation Industries, Inc. (“Western Recreation”) entered into an out-of-court settlement agreement. Vinocur had alleged that Western Recreation sold vinyl archery targets 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, Western Recreation agreed not to sell any vinyl archery targets in California after April 12, 2019, unless the targets contain less than 1,000 parts per million of DEHP when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies, OR have Proposition 65 warnings provided.

 

The Settlement Agreement requires settlement payments of $20,500, divided therein between civil penalties, 75% of which are paid to California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and compensation to citizen enforcer Vinocur and his counsel for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.