Held Settles with Tender Corp. re: Gloves with DINP

Dr. Anthony E. Held has successfully reached a settlement with Tender Corporation in regards to alleged violations of Proposition 65.  Proposition 65 requires that companies offering products for sale in California that contain chemicals known to the State to cause cancer, birth defects, and/or reproductive harm must provide consumers with a warning of the risks of exposure.  Held alleged that Tender Corporation violated Proposition 65 by selling vinyl/PVC gloves that contained the phthalate chemical DINP without the requisite health hazard warning.  DINP is known to the State of California to cause cancer.

In addition to paying civil penalties, Tender has agreed to sell only gloves that have been reformulated to be virtually free of DINP.

For more details and to read the settlement itself, please see the case summary on our website: Held v. Tender Corporation

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