California Court of Appeal

In this case, plaintiff filed a complaint against defendant food manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, seeking enforcement of the provisions of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act. Plaintiff alleges that certain of defendants' products contain toxic amounts of lead sufficient to trigger the duty to provide warnings to consumers. The judgment of the trial court in favor of defendants, finding that they had no duty to warn, is affirmed, where defendants satisfactorily demonstrated that the average consumer's reasonably anticipated rate of exposure to lead from their products falls below relevant regulatory thresholds.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/17/2015
• Published 03/17/2015

Judges

• Dondero

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel