California Attorney General Kamala Harris recently filed a lawsuit against Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Target, and other food retailers, alleging that they were selling lead-tainted ginger and plum candies and other food products without the health hazard warning required by California law, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Under Proposition 65, companies selling...
Cliff Chanler, the founder of The Chanler Group, was featured in Bay Area TV station KTVU’s news report about a possible overhaul of Proposition 65.
Proposition 65, or The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, requires businesses that offer products for sale in California to provide health hazard warnings if the products contain chemicals known to...
A recent study by the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine shows that children who were exposed to flame retardant compounds in the air and dust before they were born may suffer from behavior and cognition difficulties during early childhood and onward, Scientific American reported.
Researchers collected blood samples from 309 pregnant women early in their second...
The Chanler Group, the nation’s leading law firm that represents citizens acting in the public interest to enforce Proposition 65, announced today that it supports the reforms proposed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. to strengthen and restore the intent of Proposition 65 to protect Californians from exposures to harmful chemicals found in consumer products. The...
On April 23, 2013, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge David I. Brown granted California Attorney General (AG) Kamala Harris’s motion for judgment on the pleadings against the complaint of Plaintiffs Anthony Held, Russell Brimer, and John Moore, clients of The Chanler Group, and dismissing the case. Plaintiffs challenged the legality of the AG’s regulation...
This week, the California State Assembly’s Committee on the Judiciary voted 10-0 to pass a dramatically revamped version of the proposed legislative amendment to Proposition 65, known as Assembly Bill (“AB”) 227. The bill was originally written to provide anyone receiving a 60-Day Notice of Violation of Proposition 65 with fourteen days to correct the...
Peter Englander, Whitney Leeman, John Moore, and Laurence Vinocur--clients of The Chanler Group--on May 1 served nine 60-Day Notices of Violation of Proposition 65 on companies offering furniture and other products for sale in California that contain chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm, without the required health hazard warning. TCG's citizen...
The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has requested relevant information on whether the chemical Trichloroethylene (TCE) meets the criteria for listing as a chemical known to the State to cause reproductive harm. This request for relevant information is being proposed under Health and Safety Code...
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal reported on the potential risk of phthalates and Bisphenol A (BPA) being released when food is microwaved in plastic containers. Several phthalate chemicals have been designated by California as chemicals known to cause cancer and reproductive harm, and BPA has been designated as known to cause reproductive harm, although a...
A study carried out in California’s San Joaquin Valley demonstrated a possible link between high air pollution and birth defects. The results were posted in The American Journal of Epidemiology.
Even adjusted for smoking, maternal age, multivitamin use, and other variables, researchers found that a mother living in areas with the highest levels of carbon monoxide...
