Leeman v. Perfumania, Inc., et al.

Posted: 01/16/2008  browse the case archive

The Honorable Lawrence John Appel of the Alameda County Superior Court entered a Consent Judgment in the case of Leeman v. Perfumania, Inc., et al., on January 16, 2008. In this matter whistleblower Whitney R. Leeman, Ph.D., alleged that Perfumania, Inc. ("Perfumania") sold cosmetic kits containing the heavy metal lead in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

As part of the settlement, Perfumania agreed not to sell any cosmetic kits in California after September 1, 2007, unless the kits have Proposition 65 warnings or comply with the reformulation standards when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies. Perfumania committed that 80% of kits offered for sale in California after January 1, 2008, shall be reformulated.

The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $19,500 to be divided between civil penalties, 75% of which are paid to California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and compensation to whistleblower Leeman and her counsel for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.

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