Held v. Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc,

On March 28, 2016, the parties involved in the case Held v. Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. executed a Consent Judgment.  In this matter, citizen enforcer Anthony E. Held, Ph.D, P.E. alleged that Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (“Sally Beauty”) sold vinyl gloves containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (“DINP”) in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.  

As part of the agreement, Sally Beauty agreed not to sell any vinyl gloves in California 90 days after the Santa Clara County Superior Court enters the Judgment, unless the gloves contain no more than 1,000 parts per million of DINP in any accessible component when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies.

The Consent Judgment required settlement payments of $17,000, 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.