Wozniak v. Certified International Corp.

Posted: 12/21/2015  browse the case archive

The parties involved in the case Wozniak v. Certified International Corp. executed a Consent Judgment on December 21, 2015.  In this matter, citizen enforcer Paul Wozniak alleged that Certified International Corp. (“Certified”) sold mugs with exterior designs containing the heavy metal lead in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.  

As part of the agreement, Certified agreed not to sell any mugs with exterior designs in California after April 30, 2016, unless the exterior designs contain no more than 1 microgram residential lead content by weight on any surface when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies.  Wozniak has agreed to waive a portion of the civil penalty should Certified provide Wozniak with certification that all mugs with exterior designs sold in California qualify as reformulated by November 30, 2016.

The Consent Judgment required settlement payments of $58,000, divided therein between civil penalties, 75% of which are paid to California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and compensation to whistleblower Wozniak and his counsel for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.   

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