Our client, a Los Angeles health food company, received a Prop 65 notice alleging lead in two of its most important products. The client’s greatest concern was whether it would have to put Prop 65 warnings on the products after the litigation was concluded. Two of The Food Lawyers’ food science PhD’s teamed up with the client’s QA team to test the products’ ingredients. For one of the products, the lead was traced to an ingredient extruder that had lead in its metal composition. The extruder was replaced with stainless steel and this solved the warning issue for that product. The other product was flavored with cinnamon. The testing of cinnamon disclosed that one of the two cinnamon suppliers had high incidences of lead in the product and the other had essentially none. Purchasing was shifted to the better supplier and the second product, too, would need no Prop 65 warning. 100% Prop 65 success for the client.
