Moore v. Sales & Product Solutions, Inc.

On November 14, 2011, citizen enforcer John Moore and settling defendant Sales & Product Solutions, Inc. ("S & P"), entered into an out-of-court Settlement Agreement, which resolved Moore's allegations that S & P sold footwear containing the phthalate chemical di-n-butyl phthalate ("DBP") in the State of California without providing the health hazard warnings required by Proposition 65.

As part of the settlement, S & P agreed to reformulate the footwear after October 14, 2011, so that the each accessible component of the footwear contains less than 0.1 percent (1,000 parts per million) of DBP when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies.

The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $40,000, 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.