Lead
Prop 65 Warning Required For ANY Lead In Product, Group Tells Court
California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (commonly referred to as “Proposition 65” or “Prop 65”) was passed with the intention of providing consumers with information regarding cancer-causing agents in products that would allow consumers to...
Lead Particles In Hair Dye A Health Risk?
The news regarding the Flint, Michigan drinking water dominates the media coverage for anything having to do with lead particles and potential health hazards. However, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently begun investigating the potential health hazards...
EPA Targets Lead In Cosmetics and Consumer Products
The EPA recently released the Federal Lead Action Plan to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposures and Associated Health Impacts, which primarily seeks to reduce exposure from paint, drinking water, soil and emissions. Limiting exposure through cosmetics and consumer...
Lead-Containing Toddler Formulas Violate Prop 65
Two manufacturers of toddler formulas (Nutraceutical Corp. and Graceleigh Inc.) agreed to stop selling their products (Peaceful Plant Toddler Supreme Formula and Sammy's Free-Range Goat Milk Toddler Formula) in California after the California Attorney General sent...
Prop 65 Levels For Lead In Drinking Water Will Remain Unchanged
CMBG3 Law previously reported on Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation's (Mateel), an environmental watch group, efforts to urge the California Appeals Court to Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to repeal the regulatory limit of .05 micrograms...
Paint Company Settles Lead Paint Case in California For $60 Million
CMBG3 Law previously reported on a pending lead paint case in California (The People of the State of California v. Atlantic Richfield Co. et al., case number H040880, in the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Sixth Appellate District) in which paint...
U.S. Supreme Court Will Not Hear Flint, Michigan Cases On Appeal
In August of 2017, CMBG3 reported on the Sixth Circuit court’s ruling that revived two class action lawsuits regarding lead-contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan, finding that the Safe Drinking Water Act does not preempt the lawsuits from proceeding. The...
CA Supreme Court Will Not Overturn $1.15 Billion Lead Paint Ruling
As CMBG3 Law previoulsy reported, a California trial court ruled that paint manufacturer Sherwin-Williams Co. and two former lead pigment makers (ConAgra Grocery Products and NL Industries) must pay $1.15 billion to abate lead paint in millions of homes in California....
Company Receives $100,000 Grant From EPA To Develop Lead Particle Measurement Technology For Drinking Water
Given the events in recent years that have taken place in Flint, Michigan regarding lead particles in the community drinking water, there has been a significant uptick in news and attention paid to the potential for lead particles in drinking water sources to cause...