Leeman Files Complaint Against Home Essentials & Beyond

Dr. Whitney Leeman has filed a complaint against Home Essentials & Beyond, alleging that Home Essentials sold glass canisters, jars, and mugs with exterior designs that contained lead without a Proposition 65 warning to consumers.  Lead is known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, and other reproductive harm.  Home Essentials & Beyond products are sold in major national retailers such as Walmart and Bed Bath & Beyond, and online sites such as Wayfair and Amazon.

In addition to civil penalties, Dr. Leeman seeks an injunction to prevent Home Essentials from selling glass canisters, jars, and mugs with exterior decorations without a Proposition 65 warning.

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