Cancer
December 20, 2013
Effective today, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) designated the common plasticizer Diisononyl Phthalate as known to cause cancer.
When OEHHA, the state agency responsible for implementing Proposition 65, designates a chemical as known to cause cancer and/or reproductive harm—thus adding the chemical to the State...
Cancer, DINP, OEHHA, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (“OEHHA”), Proposition 65, Proposition 65 Warning
December 27, 2013
The majority of public drinking water wells tested on Cape Cod, Mass. are contaminated with pharmaceuticals, consumer product chemicals, and other contaminants, according to a recent report by Silent Spring Institute. Septic systems are likely the main source of the contamination.
Researchers found contaminants in 15 of 20 public wells and two distribution systems....
December 13, 2013
December 13, 2013
(Other) Reproductive Harm, Anthony E. Held, Birth Defects, Cancer, DEHP, Euro Style, Inc., Residential Furniture, TDCPP, Z Gallerie
December 13, 2013
December 4, 2013
On behalf of its client Laurence Vinocur, The Chanler Group successfully negotiated a settlement with baby products manufacturer Evenflo Company, Inc. that will result in the reformulation of thousands of infant car seats and booster seats.
Evenflo allegedly manufactured thousands of car and booster seats containing the carcinogenic flame retardants tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl...
November 22, 2013
Governor Edmund “Jerry” Brown announced yesterday his approval of California’s new flammability standards for upholstered furniture after a year-long effort to modernize the standards and reduce consumer exposure to toxic flame retardant chemicals. Such toxic flame retardant chemicals have been the subject of numerous Proposition 65 actions brought by...
November 13, 2013
Researchers with the nonprofit Ecology Center tested 58 common picnic products sold at 10 major retailers and found that the majority of them contain a carcinogen or reproductive toxicant. The results are available at HealthyStuff.org.
Products were tested for lead, phthalates, flame retardants, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury, among others. The researchers found...
November 15, 2013
Furniture/Today, the business newspaper of the furniture industry, has announced that it has added a Proposition 65 session to its 2013 Leadership Conference. The session will educate attendees about Proposition 65, what it requires for compliance and what it means for manufacturers, suppliers, importers and retailers in the industry.
Proposition 65 requires companies...
November 1, 2013
A study published in Environmental Health Perspectives shows that brominated flame retardants such as PBDEs can mimic estrogen hormones and possibly disrupt the endocrine system, which could result in increased risk of auto-immune disease and breast and uterine cancer.
The study was conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. For more details, read the...
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