Excerpted from the full article at the Environmental Leader:
OfficeMax, Ross Stores and Kinwai USA are among the nine manufacturers and retailers that law firm The Chanler Group is suing under California’s Proposition 65. The group has also served more than 100 violation notices on leading furniture manufacturers and retailers,...
Excerpted from full article at Prop 65 News:
Citizen enforcer Whitney Leeman, Ph.D. has filed three Proposition 65 enforcement actions against prominent national food suppliers in San Francisco Superior Court. Named in the lawsuits are spice and flavoring manufacturer McCormick & Company, Inc., coffee and flavoring manufacturer Farmer Bros. Co.; as well as Adams...
Excerpted from the full article at the Environmental Leader:
Law firm the Chanler Group has filed Proposition 65 civil complaints in the Superior Court of California against spice and flavoring manufacturer McCormick & Company, coffee and flavoring manufacturer Farmer Bros., and Adams Extract & Spice, LLC. The complaints charge the three defendants with distributing...
Excerpted from the full article at FoodBev.com:
The Chanler Group, a US environmental law firm, has filed Proposition 65 civil complaints against three prominent US food suppliers.
Spice and flavouring manufacturer McCormick & Company, coffee and flavouring manufacturer Farmer Bros and Adams Extract & Spice.
The complaints charge the three defendants with distributing...
Excerpted from the full article at foodproductdesign.com:
McCormick & Company, Inc., Farmer Bros. Co. and Adams Extract & Spice LLC all have been sued by a Connecticut-based law firm for violating California's Proposition 65. The lawsuits claim the companies failed to provide a warning that they are distributing food extracts, flavors and colorings containing...
Excerpted from the full article at the San Francisco Daily Journal:
Two lawyers are poised to unleash a flood of lawsuits against a slew of major companies alleging that they are failing to warn the public about the dangers of flame retardants in their products.
The controversy centers on the cancer-causing chemical chlorinated tris, which regulators recently listed under the...
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/29/4449484/state-ordered-warnings-generate...
Ira Reiner vaguely remembers the ballot measure he helped champion 25 years ago, back when he was a politician on the rise and groundwater contamination was the crisis of the day.
Proposition 65? Isn’t that the one responsible for all those signs that warn anyone who dares...
Excerpted from the full length article in the Daily Californian:
Recently, five companies, including Anchor Blue, Zappos.com and Smart & Final, have been sued in Alameda County Superior Court by such citizens, who claim the businesses violated California law by failing to warn consumers about carcinogenic or birth-complicating substances in their products.
Anthony Held, a...
Excerpted from the full article in Prop. 65 News:
On June 4, 2010, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced a recall by McDonald's Corp for 13.4 million "Shrek Forever After 3D" Collectable Drinking Glasses due to a potential cadmium risk. The glasses were sold in the company's restaurants promotionally from May-June 2010 for about $2 each....
Excerpted from the full length article in Prop. 65 Clearing House:
The chemical DEHP has sparked a new bit of friction between Attorney General Jerry Brown and a private Proposition 65 plaintiff who has been targeting companies allegedly exposing children to the substance.
As outlined in a series of documents filed in Alameda Superior Court, Brown’s office has launched...
