Held v. Shurtape Technologies, LLC

Citizen enforcer Anthony E. Held, Ph.D, P.E. and settling party Shurtape Technologies, LLC (“Shurtape”) entered into an out-of-court settlement agreement on March 25, 2015.  Held had alleged that Shurtape sold vinyl/PVC electrical tape 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, Shurtape agreed not to sell any vinyl/PVC electrical tape in California after June 1, 2015, unless the tape contains less than 1,000 parts per million of DEHP when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies, or have Proposition 65 warnings provided. 

The Settlement Agreement requires settlement payments of $15,000, divided therein between civil penalties, 75% of which are paid to California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and compensation to citizen enforcer Held and his counsel for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.