Moore v. Paris Business Products, Inc., et al.

On March 21, 2011, the San Francisco County Superior Court entered a Consent Judgment in Moore v. Paris Business Products Inc., et al., which resolved citizen enforcer John Moore's allegations that the defendant Paris Business Products, Inc. ("Paris") sold books with soft covers 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 settlement, Paris agreed not to sell any books with soft covers in California after April 1, 2011, unless the books contain no more than 1,000 parts per million of DEHP when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies or have Proposition 65 warnings provided for the books already existing in inventory.

The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $33,000, divided therein between civil penalties, 75% of which are paid to California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and compensation to whistleblower Moore and his counsel for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.