Govesan issues recall and pays heavy penalty for mislabeling powder coatings containing heavy metals
How would you like to find out that the powder coatings you bought and sprayed onto your products for several years contained lead, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, and other heavy metals, in some cases at levels reaching 20 percent, without one word on the material safety data sheet 1 [MSDS] accompanying the product?
That's exactly what's at issue with one powder coatings manufacturer after a complaint to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency [MPCA] led to testing and discovery.