Moorberg v. Home Essentials & Beyond, Inc.

Posted: 03/22/2016  browse the case archive

On March 22, 2016, the parties involved in the case Moorberg v. Home Essentials & Beyond, Inc. executed a Consent Judgment.  In this matter, citizen enforcer Mark Moorberg alleged that Home Essentials & Beyond, Inc. (“Home Essentials”) sold magnifying glasses with vinyl/PVC handles 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 agreement, Home Essentials agreed not to sell any magnifying glasses with vinyl/PVC handles in California after the Marin County Superior Court enters the Judgment, unless the magnifying glasses contain no more than 1,000 parts per million of DEHP in each component when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies.

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

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