Prop 65 Benchmark

Food: produce: Proposition 65 notices and settlements

Notices about products in the category Food: produce, and what they settled for.

Notices
2,013
7% withdrawn
Recorded settlements
288
15% of active notices
Median total payment
$21,000
range $3,250 to $231,000, n=288
Median days to settlement
n/a
from notice filing date
PaymentMedianMiddle halfRangeSample
Civil penalty$2,000$1,400 to $3,000$100 to $36,500288
Attorney fees and costs$19,000$14,850 to $26,000$1,750 to $230,000288
Total payments$21,000$16,000 to $28,000$3,250 to $231,000288

Settlements that ended in reformulation: 62%. Settlements that ended in warnings: 94%. A settlement reported under several notice numbers is counted once.

Most common chemicals

ChemicalsNotices
Lead987
Lead and lead compounds490
Cadmium486
delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol45
Cadmium and cadmium compounds43
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