Held v. Sun and Skin Care Research, LLC

Posted: 02/20/2015  browse the case archive

On February 20, 2015, the parties executed an out-of-court Settlement Agreement, which resolved the allegations that whistleblower Anthony E. Held, Ph.D, P.E., made against settling party Sun and Skin Care Research, LLC (“SSCR”).  In this matter, Held alleged that SSCR sold sunscreen products containing the chemical benzophenone in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

As part of the settlement, SSCR agreed not to sell any sunscreen products in California after February 19, 2015, unless the products contain less than 12.5 parts per million of benzophenone when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies, or have Proposition 65 warnings provided.

The Settlement Agreement requires settlement payments of $71,000, 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.  

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