Held v. SeaCliff Beauty Packaging & Laboratories, Inc.

Posted: 08/15/2012  browse the case archive

In the enforcement action Held v. Cashco Distributors, Inc.; et al., the Marin County Superior Court entered a Consent Judgment on August 15, 2012, which resolved citizen enforcer Anthony E. Held, Ph.D., P.E.’s allegations that the defendant SeaCliff Beauty Packaging & Laboratories, Inc. (“SeaCliff”) sold toiletry cases/bags 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, SeaCliff agreed not to sell any toiletry cases/bags in California after May 15, 2012, unless the toiletry cases/bags contain no more than 1,000 parts per million (0.1%) of DEHP in any accessible component that may be touched or handled during reasonably foreseeable use when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies.       

The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $36,000, 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.

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