Civil Litigation,
Administrative/Regulatory
Apr. 19, 2018
Ruling in Proposition 65 coffee case not entirely unpredictable
Currently, no agency has classified acrylamide as a “known” carcinogen. Yet, according to this new ruling, coffee sold in California must state exactly that.
Anthony J. Cortez
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig LLP
1201 K Street suite# 1100
Sacramento , CA 95814
Email: cortezan@gtlaw.com
Willis M. Wagner
Senior Associate
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Phone: (916) 534-1044
Email: will.wagner@arnoldporter.com
Arizona State Univ COL; Tempe AZ
Will focuses on consumer product defense and regulatory compliance, particularly issues involving California's Proposition 65. He is resident in the firm's San Francisco office.
A Los Angeles judge has ground the coffee industry to a halt by ruling that both ready-to-drink and bagged coffee sold in California must be accompanied by a cancer warning. Council for Education and Research on Toxics, BC435759 (L.A. Super Ct., filed April 13, 2010). The lawsuits alleged that Starbucks plus 90 other entities were violating the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 -- aka Proposition 65. The ruling was based...
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