NWPCA Launches Defense Fund - Feb 4, 2011 

Following the lawsuit filed in December by Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS) against National Wooden Pallet & Container Association (NWPCA) and its president and CEO, Bruce Scholnick, the pallet association has launched a legal defense fund. iGPS claims in its lawsuit that the NWPCA and its leadership have made “false, malicious and defamatory statements suggesting that iGPS pallets may be the cause of recent butter contamination in the Dallas area.” This controversy has arisen from a study conducted by the University of Texas School of Public Health, which studied the amount of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) that are inadvertently consumed in food.