Held Settles with Estée Lauder Re: Sunscreen

Dr. Anthony Held has reached a settlement with The Estée Lauder Companies in regards to alleged violations of Proposition 65.  Held alleged that Estée Lauder sold products with a Sun Protector Factor (“SPF) that contained the chemical benzophenone, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer, without the requisite health hazard warning.

In addition to paying civil penalties, Estée Lauder has agreed to reformulate its products to be virtually free of benzophenone and provide its vendors with the reformulation standards.

For more details and to read the settlement itself, please see the case summary on our website: Held v. The Estée Lauder Companies

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.