Dollar Tree Sandwich Consumers Exposed to Lead, Lawsuit Says

A suit filed in California state court alleges Dollar Tree Stores Inc. customers who consume Sobisk Foods LLC breakfast sandwiches are exposed to lead without proper warning required by the state’s Safe Drinking and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986.

Oakland-based non-profit Center for Environmental Health said Sobisk and Dollar Tree failed to adhere to Proposition 65 in informing consumers about their potential exposure to chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

Under Proposition 65, companies must warn consumers in California of exposure to lead and lead compounds first added to the list in 1987 and known to ...