NWPCA Plastic Pallet Statements Incur iGPS Lawsuit

Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS), a pallet rental service providing all-plastic pallets with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, filed suit against the National Wooden Pallet and Container Association (NWPCA) and its president for false, malicious and defamatory statements suggesting that iGPS pallets may be the cause of recent butter contamination in the Dallas area.

In response, the NWPCA has stated that it is comfortable that the data distributed in its recent news release is supportable and founded on credible sources of evidence.  NWPCA believes the lawsuit by iGPS is a distraction meant to draw attention from the core of what NWPCA is advocating, which is to have a zero tolerance for all polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants in the food and pharmaceutical industries.

NWPCA believes that elimination of these risky chemicals should be part of the field-to-fork food safety goals inherent in the food modernization objectives currently being considered by Congress and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -- not only those contained in plastic pallets, but in all products used in the food and pharmaceutical industries.

View:
- the Complaint filed in the District Court of Dallas County, Texas (pdf)
- the NWPCA press release