DINP

July 14, 2015
Anthony Held and Mark Moorberg issued 14 new 60-Day Notices of Violation of Proposition 65 yesterday, to companies offering products such as gloves, headsets, and hand tools in California that contain chemicals known to the State to cause cancer and/or reproductive harm without the requisite health hazard warning.  These citizen enforcers allege that the companies’...
July 9, 2015
Dr. Anthony Held has filed a complaint against Inteplast Group in Alameda County Superior Court alleging violations of Proposition 65.  Proposition 65 requires companies offering products for sale in California that contain chemicals known to the State to cause cancer, birth defects, or reproductive harm to provide consumers with a health hazard warning.  Held...
June 5, 2015
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has appealed a California court decision to refuse the reversal of the designation of the phthalate DINP as a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, according to ChemicalWatch.  The ACC contends that there is insufficient evidence to demonstrate that DINP causes cancer in humans. Under Proposition 65 law, companies...