Held v. TG Medical (U.S.A.), Inc.

On December 9, 2015, citizen enforcer Anthony E. Held, Ph.D, P.E. and settling party TG Medical (U.S.A.), Inc. (“TG Medical”) entered into an out-of-court settlement agreement.  Held had alleged that TG Medical sold vinyl/PVC gloves containing the phthalate chemical diisononyl phthalate (“DINP”) in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

As part of the settlement, TG Medical agreed not to sell any vinyl/PVC gloves in California after March 30, 2016, unless the gloves contain less than 1,000 parts per million of DINP when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies.  Should TG Medical accelerate reformulation and provide Held with written certification by January 15, 2016 that all vinyl/PVC gloves sold in California qualify as reformulated products under the agreement, Held agreed to waive a portion of the civil penalty that would otherwise be applied.

The Settlement Agreement requires settlement payments of $28,500, 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.