Held v. Sunlight Supply, Inc.

The parties involved in the case Held v. Sunlight Supply, Inc. executed a Consent Judgment on April 23, 2015.  In this matter, citizen enforcer Anthony E. Held, Ph.D., P.E. alleged that Sunlight Supply, Inc. (“Sunlight”) sold water sprayers with metal nozzles containing the heavy metal lead in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.  

As part of the agreement, Sunlight agreed not to sell any water sprayers with metal nozzles in California after the Alameda County Superior Court approves the Judgment, unless the sprayers with metal nozzles have Proposition 65 warnings provided pursuant to section 3.1of the agreement. 

The Consent Judgment required 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.