DiPirro v. Advantage Publishers Group, et al.

A Consent Judgment in the DiPirro v. Advantage Publishers Group, et al. matter, heard in the Alameda County Superior Court, was entered on December 18, 2002. The Consent Judgment resolved citizen enforcer Michael DiPirro's allegations that the defendant Advantage Publishers Group sold books with lead-containing paint or ink in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

As part of the settlement, Advantage agreed not to sell in California books with lead-containing paint or ink unless the products yield less than .5 micrograms of lead per day.

The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $5,000, divided therein between civil penalties, 75% of which are paid to California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and compensation to whistleblower DiPirro and his counsel for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.