TCG’s Clients Serve 10 Prop 65 Sixty-Day Notices Re: Flame Retardants

Posted: 02/26/2013  browse the blog archive

Peter Englander and Laurence Vinocur—clients of The Chanler Group—served 10 new 60-Day Notices of Violation on companies offering products containing one or more of the flame retardants Tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCPP) and Tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP) for sale in California without a Proposition 65 warning.  TDCPP and TCEP are chemicals known to cause cancer.  The products involved include padded upholstered furniture, seats, and baby sleepers.  Companies receiving notice include Tomy Corporation, Kmart, Human Touch, and others.  A partial list of the notices appears below.

 

Product Chemical Alleged Violator Citizen Enforcer
Padded Upholstered Furniture including Foot Stools/Ottomans TCEP Human Touch, LLC Englander
Padded Upholstered Furniture including Chairs TCEP L. Powell Acquisition Corp. Englander
Padded Upholstered Ottomans TCEP Sears Holdings Corporation; Kmart Corporation Englander
Padded Upholstered Ottomans TCEP Otto International (USA) LLC; Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation Englander
Car Seats with Padding

TCEP

 

Evenflo Company, Inc.; Target Corporation

 Vinocur
Padded Upholstered Drum Seats

TCEP

First Act Inc.; Toys "R" Us, Inc.

 

 Vinocur
Sleepers with Padding TCEP Tomy Corporation; Tomy International, Inc.; Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation Vinocur
Sleepers with Padding TDCPP Tomy Corporation; Tomy International, Inc.; Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation Vinocur

 

Read the most recent notices issued by clients of The Chanler Group

60 Day Notice, Current Pursuits, Flame retardants, Furniture, Proposition 65, Sleepers, Tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate ("TDCPP"), tris(2-chloroethyl)phosphate ("TCEP")