Firm to list companies that come up ‘clean' on Prop 65— by Heath E. Combs at Furniture Today

Excerpted from full article at Furniture Today:

Proposition 65 legal firm The Chanler Group says it plans to publish a list of furniture manufacturers that have come up "clean" in testing for toxic flame retardants.

The Chanler Group has served more than 100 sixty-day notices of violation on furniture manufacturers alleging the presence of the flame retardant chemicals TDCPP and TCEP in their products, according to Clifford Chanler, founder of The Chanler Group.

Thus far in 2013, about 140 total notices for furniture violations of Prop 65 have been issued.

The notices filed give furniture suppliers 60 days to respond, after which the attorney general can decide to pursue civil cases. As the first 60-day notices expired last month, the first civil court case complaints followed.

Prop 65 is a state law requiring point-of-sale notification by manufacturers to consumers of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer, birth defects or from reproductive harm. The law, passed in 1986, doesn't require elimination of the chemical, but allows citizen plaintiffs to cite companies for lack of proper notice for listed chemicals.

TDCPP is used in foam to help meet California's TB 117 upholstery flammability standard - a standard the state is in the process of revising.

The Chanler Group plans to release details soon on the first settlement in a TDCPP Prop 65 notification this year, which should give companies guidance on how the firm will handle complaints, Chanler said. link to source