Posted on June 5, 2013
U.S. Senators David Bitter (R-La) and the late Frank R. Lautenberg* (D-NJ) last month proposed new legislation that, if enacted, would modernize the 1976 Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA). The proposed Chemical Safety Improvement Act of 2013 would ensure that all chemicals registered in the...
Posted on June 3, 2013
Excerpted from full article at Prop 65 Clearinghouse:
Tris itself was listed as a Prop. 65 carcinogen in October of 2011 over the objections of the chemical industry. The warning requirement for products containing Tris became effective in October of last year. OEHHA subsequently established a safe...
Posted on June 3, 2013
American Commercial Colleges Inc. (ACC), a Texas-based for-profit corporation, has agreed to pay the United States government up to $2.5 million, including interest, to resolve allegations that they knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to federal student aid programs, the U....
Posted on June 3, 2013
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week proposed two rules to help protect Americans from exposure to the harmful chemical formaldehyde.
Formaldehyde is commonly known as a preservative for scientific specimens, but it has a wide variety of other uses, including in adhesives...
Posted on May 31, 2013
Recently, chemicals intended to prevent fires such as brominated flame retardants (PBDEs and others) and chlorinated Tris (TDCPP, TCEP, and others) have been shown to cause cancer, disrupt human thyroid function, and pose other potential health hazards. These chemicals are commonly present in...
Posted on May 31, 2013
Whitney Leeman and Laurence Vinocur--clients of The Chanler Group--served ten 60-Day Notices of Proposition 65 Violation today. The notices were served to companies offering products such as furniture, greeting cards, medical instrument cases, and hand tools for sale in California containing...
Posted on May 31, 2013
Recent amendments to the federal False Claims Act have expanded whistleblower protections and increased penalties for violators. The amendments came in the form of the federal Deficit Reduction Act, the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act, the Affordable Care Act, and the Dodd-Frank Act....
Posted on May 29, 2013
Assembly Bill 227, an amendment to California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (commonly known as Proposition 65), was passed by the California Assembly last Friday and is now headed for the California Senate. If the bill passes the Senate and Governor Edmund G...
Posted on May 28, 2013
Earlier this month, Environmental Health Perspectives, a National Institutes of Health journal, reported on two studies showing that exposure to the carcinogenic flame retardant TDCPP, commonly referred to as chlorinated tris, may be widespread.
TDCPP is a flame retardant widely used in...
Posted on May 28, 2013
ISTA Pharmaceuticals has pleaded guilty to federal felony charges of conspiracy to introduce a misbranded drug into interstate commerce and conspiracy to pay illegal remuneration in violation of the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week. In addition...
