Held v. ICON Health & Fitness, Inc.

The parties involved in the case Held v Icon Health & Fitness executed a Consent Judgment on May 3, 2017.  In this matter, citizen enforcer Anthony E. Held alleged that ICON Health & Fitness, Inc. (“ICON”) sold vinyl/PVC exercise mats containing the phthalate chemicals di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (“DEHP”) and diisononyl phthalate (“DINP”) in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.  

As part of the agreement, ICON agreed not to sell any vinyl/PVC exercise mats in California after the Marin County Superior Court approves the Judgment, unless the products contain no more than 1,000 parts per million of DEHP and/or DINP when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies OR have Proposition 65 warnings provided.

The Consent Judgment required settlement payments of up to $51,000, divided therein between civil penalties, 75% of which are paid to California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and compensation to whistleblower Held and his counsel for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.