We specialize in complex litigation cases in consumer protection and collaborate with law firms in different states in class actions and other health & safety laws violations cases.
CONSUMER LAW
Everyone Is a Consumer
If you ask, most people would say that the biggest dangers to their lives come from remote threats such as a pandemic or terrorism. However, the probability of dying from a virus is a fraction of a percentage and encountering an act of terrorism is less than 0.0000045%. While the probability of consuming carcinogenic toxins with long-term health effects might be close to 100%.
Mighty food corporations pour resources into creating a stigma of bounty hunters around utterly unfunded health laws enforcers.
The food giants may self-righteously profess themselves hunger fighters or job saviors while sourcing ingredients and materials to maximize profits at the expense of our health.
In the anemic state of public-interest watch dogs it is easy for food corporations to conveniently withhold a vital information about the dangerous chemical toxins we bring home from a grocery store to feed our families.
Some major cosmetic companies may parade their pink ribbons in October only to pour chemicals that cause breast cancer year round in their “beauty” products.
Food and consumer products’ corporations, including so-called “health” brands, have been caught advertising to you products for which they have been served notices of violation of the California Health & Safety Code with egregious amounts of lead, cadmium, acrylamide or other toxic chemicals- see California Attorney General's website.
TOGETHER WE CAN
We are empowering consumers, and we all are them, to take on the big corporate world of consumer products manufacturers, distributers, licensors, retailers, and make them clean up their supply. Together we can.
Studies show that minority communities and people of color are disproportionately impacted by pollution and dangerous foods and products.
Most of the unprotected, unprivileged public would never know why their fatigue becomes relentless, brain suddenly fogged, an unborn became affected, or a chilling diagnosis transpired, if not for the private enforcers who buy products from regular store shelves or online retailers, send them to independent laboratories, and alert the public and the prosecutors to the egregious amounts of toxins in consumer products and foods.
But it appears to have been so profitable that the corporations have had no scruple against weaponizing themselves with ivy-league-educated, big-firm lawyers and experts for pay in the recurrent, feeble attempt to sustain their infamous argument that all contamination is “naturally occurring,” accompanied by impeccable test results from their pocket labs.
Corporate moguls may have come to treat the regular penalties they are paying for violations of health laws as a cost of doing business, because private and public enforcers do not possess the resources readily available for a manufacturing corporation.
The legal cost of taking on a corporate giant is daunting and the enforcers continue to struggle to achieve increased fines and meaningful outcomes, such as implementation of regular testing protocols, improved sourcing and manufacturing practices.
California's Proposition 65 has been a major influence on the US food industry due to the sheer size of the California market: corporations reformulate their products, alter manufacturing practices and implement proper testing instead of recklessly flooding the market with polluted carcinogenic foods.
We are empowering consumers, and we all are them, to take on the big corporate world of consumer products manufacturers, distributers, licensors, retailers, and make them clean up their supply. Together we can.