Wozniak v. Tailor Made Products, Inc.

The parties involved in the case Wozniak v. Tailor Made Products, Inc. executed a Consent Judgment on January 29, 2015.  In this matter, citizen enforcer Paul Wozniak alleged that Tailor Made Products, Inc. (“Tailor Made”) sold nylon cooking utensils that contain 4,4’-Methylenedianiline (“4,4’-MDA”) in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

As part of the agreement, Tailor Made agreed not to sell any nylon cooking utensils in California after the Alameda County Superior Court approves the Judgment, unless the utensils contain no more than 2,000 parts per million of 4,4’-MDA by weight when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies, or unless Proposition 65 warnings are provided.  Should Tailor Made provide written certification within eighteen months of the Effective Date that all nylon cooking utensils sold in California qualify as reformulated, Wozniak agreed to waive a portion of the civil fine that would otherwise be applied.

The Consent Judgment required settlement payments of $137,500, 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.