Furniture/Today Adds Prop 65 Session to Conference

Posted: 11/15/2013  browse the blog archive

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 offering products for sale in California containing chemicals known to cause cancer and/or reproductive harm to first provide consumers with a health hazard warning.  Chemical flame retardants such as TDCPP and TCEP are known to cause cancer, and clients of The Chanler Group have issued notices of violation to and filed complaints against furniture manufacturers and retailers such as IKEA, Coaster of America and Summer Infant Inc.

The conference will be held from December 3-5 at the Ritz-Carlton Beach Resort in Naples, Florida.

The Chanler Group represents citizen enforcers who, acting in the public interest, commence actions against businesses offering products for sale in California that contain chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm without first providing the health hazard warning required by Proposition 65. Citizen enforcers bringing Proposition 65 actions in the public interest may obtain a Court Judgment imposing civil penalties, an injunction requiring reformulation of products, and/or provision of health hazard warnings. The Chanler Group has represented citizen enforcers of Proposition 65 for more than twenty years.