Wozniak Negotiates Settlement with Tailor Made Products Re: Nylon Cooking Utensils

Our client Paul Wozniak has negotiated a settlement with Tailor Made Products, a manufacturer of nylon cooking utensils.  Wozniak alleged that Tailor Made offered nylon cooking utensils for sale in California that contained 4,4-Methylenedianiline (4,4’-MDA), a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, without the requisite health hazard warnings.  Proposition 65 law requires that companies offering products for sale in California that contain chemicals known to the State to cause cancer and/or reproductive harm must provide consumers with a “clear and reasonable” warning of the exposure risk.

In addition to civil penalties, Tailor Made has agreed to sell only nylon cooking utensils that have been reformulated to contain less than 2,000 parts per million of 4,4’-MDA by weight, or provide Proposition 65 warnings to consumers.

For more details, please see the case summary on our website: Wozniak v. Tailor Made Products, Inc.

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. The Chanler Group has represented citizen enforcers of Proposition 65 for more than twenty years.