Moore v. Tiffin Athletic Mats, Inc., et al.

On January 12, 2012, the San Francisco County Superior Court entered a Consent Judgment and Proposition 65 Settlement in Moore v. Tiffin Athletic Mats, Inc., et al., which resolved citizen enforcer John Moore's allegations that the defendant Tiffin Athletic Mats, Inc. ("Tiffin") sold exercise/fitness mats 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, Tiffin agreed not to sell any exercise/fitness mats in California unless the mats have Proposition 65 warnings provided or contain less than .1 percent of DEHP in each accessible component when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies.

The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $11,000, 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.