Held Files Complaint Versus Avery Dennison Re: Lead in Journals

Client Anthony Held, Ph.D, P.E., has filed a complaint against Avery Dennison Corporation alleging that the company has been selling journals in California that contain lead, without the requisite health hazard warning.  Lead is a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer and reproductive harm, and companies offering products for sale that contain such chemicals must, under Proposition 65 law, provide consumers with a “clear and reasonable” health hazard warning.  Avery Dennison is a global manufacturer and distributor of office supplies.

Held seeks civil penalties, an injunction to prevent Avery Dennison from selling its products without a Proposition 65 warning, and such other and further relief as the court deems just and proper.

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.