Celtic Sea Salt class action overview:
Who: Plaintiff Mark Gonzalez filed a class action lawsuit against Celtic Ocean International LLC.
Why: Gonzalez alleges Celtic Sea Salt products are contaminated with lead and arsenic.
Where: The Celtic Sea Salt class action was filed in California federal court.
A new class action lawsuit claims Celtic Ocean International LLC’s Celtic Sea Salt products are contaminated with lead and arsenic. Plaintiff Mark Gonzalez’s class action complaint alleges that Celtic Sea Salt products, including Fine Ground Celtic Sea Salt and Light Grey Celtic Sea Salt, contain “significant levels” of lead and arsenic.
Gonzalez claims Celtic Ocean misleads consumers into believing the Celtic Sea Salt products are healthy by using labels that contain statements such as “vital minerals,” “good manufacturing practice” and “doctor recommended.”
“No reasonable consumer would buy the products if they knew the products contained toxic and harmful ingredients such as lead and arsenic,” the Celtic Sea Salt class action lawsuit says.
Gonzalez wants to represent a nationwide class and California subclass of consumers who purchased Celtic Sea Salt products for personal use.
Celtic Sea Salt products contain lead, arsenic levels above California’s Proposition 65 limits, class action alleges
Gonzalez alleges that testing of Celtic Sea Salt products showed they contained 460 parts per billion of lead and 140 parts per billion of arsenic.
The levels of lead in the Celtic Sea Salt products exceed California’s Proposition 65 limits, which require a warning label for products that contain more than 0.5 micrograms of lead per maximum daily usage, the Celtic Sea Salt class action claims.
Gonzalez argues Celtic Ocean had a duty to inform consumers that consuming the Celtic Sea Salt products exposes them to unsafe levels of lead and arsenic.
“Instead of informing consumers about the unlawful lead contamination, it placed the High Quality and Healthy Representations on the labels of the products to affirmatively mislead its customers,” the Celtic Sea Salt class action lawsuit says.
Gonzalez claims Celtic Ocean is guilty of breach of implied warranty, and is in violation of California’s Unfair Competition Law and Consumers Legal Remedies Act. He is seeking compensatory, statutory and punitive damages for himself and all class members.
In other news concerning heavy metal contamination, Tampax, a Procter & Gamble Company, is facing a class action alleging its tampons are contaminated with unsafe levels of lead. Another lawsuit alleges that Tom’s of Maine’s Kid’s Natural Fluoride-Free Toothpaste Silly Strawberry contains unsafe levels of lead and arsenic.
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The plaintiff is represented by Craig W. Straub and Zachary M. Crosner of Crosner Legal PC.
The Celtic Sea Salt class action lawsuit is Gonzalez v. Celtic Ocean International LLC, Case No. 2:25-cv-01177 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
