Excerpted from the full article at the Environmental Leader:
OfficeMax, Ross Stores and Kinwai USA are among the nine manufacturers and retailers that law firm The Chanler Group is suing under California’s Proposition 65. The group has also served more than 100 violation notices on leading furniture manufacturers and retailers,...
Attorneys, scientists, nonprofits, and government officials gathered in San Francisco on Monday, April 8, 2013 at the annual Proposition 65 Conference held by the Prop 65 Clearinghouse to discuss the latest issues and developments in Proposition 65 compliance, enforcement, and defense. Among the attendees were attorneys from The Chanler Group, including Josh Voorhees,...
Last month, Peter Englander, John Moore, and Laurence Vinocur, clients of The Chanler Group, commenced Proposition 65 private enforcement actions against manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of upholstered furniture, alleging that the products offered for sale by these entities contain the flame retardant TDCPP, chemicals known to the State of California to...
The Chanler Group has served more than 100 “Sixty-Day Notices of Violation” on leading furniture manufacturers alleging the presence of flame retardants TDCPP and TCEP, referred to more simply as Tris, in their products. The Chanler Group’s clients, Peter Englander, Laurence Vinocur, and John Moore assert that unwarned exposure to Tris is a violation of...
On April 11, 2013, the State of California, through its Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), officially designated Bisphenol A (BPA) as a chemical known to cause developmental and reproductive harm. Under Proposition 65, products containing chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or reproductive harm cannot be sold...
Rising public concern and the Chicago Tribune’s investigative series on the toxic nature of common flame retardants found in upholstered foam furniture has given rise to new state legislation aimed at restricting or banning these flame retardant chemicals, Prop 65 News reported recently.
California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Vermont, and...
Peter Englander, John Moore, and Laurence Vinocur--clients of The Chanler Group--today served thirteen 60-Day Notices of Violation of Proposition 65 on companies offering furniture and other products for sale in California that contain chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm, without the required health hazard warning. TCG's citizen enforcers allege that...
Dr. Anthony Held, Russell Brimer, and John Moore, clients of The Chanler Group--whom previously filed a lawsuit against the California Attorney General (AG) challenging the validity of the AG's regulation (11 CCR sec. 3003) requiring citizen enforcers to file a motion to approve a Proposition 65 settlement at least 45 days before the hearing on the motion, rather than 16...
Excerpted from full article at Prop 65 News:
Citizen enforcer Whitney Leeman, Ph.D. has filed three Proposition 65 enforcement actions against prominent national food suppliers in San Francisco Superior Court. Named in the lawsuits are spice and flavoring manufacturer McCormick & Company, Inc., coffee and flavoring manufacturer Farmer Bros. Co.; as well as Adams...
A Proposition 65 trial involving the alleged presence of lead in baby food began this week in Oakland, Calif. The lawsuit was filed by the Environmental Law Foundation, a nonprofit organization, which seeks injunctive relief from the Court, ordering that the companies making and selling the baby food—including Beech-Nut, Del Monte, Dole, Gerber, and Smucker’s...
