Englander v. Saranac Glove Company, Inc.

On January 4, 2017, citizen enforcer Peter Englander and settling party Saranac Glove Company, Inc. (“Saranac”) entered into an out-of-court settlement agreement.  Englander had alleged that Saranac sold gloves with vinyl/PVC components containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (“DEHP”) in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

As part of the settlement, Saranac agreed not to sell any gloves with vinyl/PVC components in California after December 30, 2016, unless the gloves contain less than 1,000 parts per million of DEHP when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies, OR have Proposition 65 warnings provided.  Should Saranac provide Englander with written certification by December 15, 2017 that all gloves with vinyl/PVC components sold in California qualify as reformulated products under the agreement, Englander agreed to waive a portion of the civil penalty that would otherwise be applied.

The Settlement Agreement requires settlement payments of $39,000, divided therein between civil penalties, 75% of which are paid to California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and compensation to citizen enforcer Englander and his counsel for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.