Sacramento Court Approves Flame-Broiled Burger Settlement– by Dennis Pfaff at Prop. 65 Clearinghouse

Excerpted from the full length article in Prop. 65 Clearinghouse:

A Sacramento Superior Court judge has approved a settlement calling for Burger King Corporation to install new broilers to purportedly reduce customer exposure to certain cancer-causing chemicals from its hamburgers.

Judge Shellyanne W.L. Chang’s November 8 endorsement of the Proposition 65 deal between the giant fast-food company and plaintiff Whitney R. Leeman also put to rest a spirited dispute in which Attorney General Jerry Brown objected to the agreement’s fee provisions for Leeman and her lawyers.

Leeman sued Burger King in 2006, alleging the company was selling flame-broiled hamburgers containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons without warning consumers. She has subsequently filed a number of other complaints against other restaurant chains based on similar accusations. Shortly after the Burger King case was filed, it survived a demurrer brought by the defense who claimed warnings were pre-empted by federal law. link to source.