Cancer

July 14, 2015
Anthony Held and Mark Moorberg issued 14 new 60-Day Notices of Violation of Proposition 65 yesterday, to companies offering products such as gloves, headsets, and hand tools in California that contain chemicals known to the State to cause cancer and/or reproductive harm without the requisite health hazard warning.  These citizen enforcers allege that the companies’...
July 9, 2015
Dr. Anthony Held has filed a complaint against Inteplast Group in Alameda County Superior Court alleging violations of Proposition 65.  Proposition 65 requires companies offering products for sale in California that contain chemicals known to the State to cause cancer, birth defects, or reproductive harm to provide consumers with a health hazard warning.  Held...
June 30, 2015
Citizen enforcer Peter Englander’s allegations against defendants Big Lots, Inc. and Big Lots Stores, Inc. (collectively, “Big Lots”) were resolved on June 30, 2015, when the parties entered into a Consent Judgment.  In this matter, Englander alleged that Big Lots sold padded upholstered stools containing the flame retardant tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl)...
Residential Furniture
DEHP, TDCPP
July 1, 2015
Paul Wozniak has filed a complaint in Alameda County Superior Court alleging that Certified International Corp. violated Proposition 65.  Wozniak alleges that Certified International sold mugs in California that contained the heavy metal lead, a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, and/or other reproductive harm.  Under...