H. B. FULLER, INC.

Public-enemy number . . . ?
Could H.B. Fuller adhesives, killing tens of thousands of Latin street children,
also be responsible for gluing smokers' lungs closed ?
General information:
The transnational corporation H. B. Fuller no relation to Fuller Brush has deep roots. Founded in St. Paul,
Minnesota, 1887, by Harvey Benjamin Fuller as a one-man wallpaper-paste shop, it now has operation facilities
in 43 countries. H. B. Fuller's Stock Symbol is ''FUL''. Its glues in more than 10,000 varieties hold together
everything from automobile parts to cigarette partsusing its adhesives to glue together cigarette-related paper,
filters and even the cigarette tobaccoand from disposable diapers to shoes, et al. The company was run for
years by Elmer L. Andersen, a former Minnesota Governor. Lee R. Mitau appears to be the currant board
chairman presiding over Fuller board of directors Thomas W. Handley; J. Michael Losh; James J. Owens; Dante
C. Parini; Alfredo L. Rovira; John C. van Roden, Jr.; and, R. William Van Sant. Board director James J. Owens
also appears to be Fuller's President / Chief Executive Officer. Tim Keenan appears to be Fuller's Vice President,
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Fuller's ''Annual Meeting of Shareholders'' appears to take place on
the second Thursday of April. Fuller's public accounting firm appears to be KPMG, LLP. Fuller's 2013 ''Master
Incentive Plan'' appears to focus on promotion of shareholder interest by way of attracting new employees,
officers and consultants capable of insuring Fuller's future success via offering those people proprietary incentive
in the company, e.g., stock options, thereby aligning themselves with the shareholders' interests. Fuller's
Executive Officers appear to be: Jim Giertz SVP and CFO; Traci Jensen SVP, Americas Adhesives; Steven
Kenny SVP, EMEA; Patrick Trippel SVP, Market Development; Kevin Gilligan VP, Global Operations;
James McCreary, Jr. VP, Corporate Controller; Ann Parriott VP, Human Resources; Cheryl Reinitz VP,
Treasurer. Marketing Fuller's products at trade shows and diverse production at their plants in Latin America,
India and China, has purportedly produced another record-setting year for Fuller sales, production and profits in
2012, with net revenue up 21%; organic sales up between 6 and 10%; net income or EPS up 16%; stock price up
47%; and 2012 dividends increased for the 44th consecutive year, reaching the highest increase in 25 years.
Fuller's goals for 2015 are 5 8 % Organic Growth in Hygiene, Packaging and Durable Assembly, combined
with an EBITDA margin of 15%, reaching $2.4 billion in revenue and $360 million in EBITDA. Strategies:
Investing and leveraging sales and marketing expertise; Global investment and growth; Innovations in chemistry
and application. Just a few of the numerous, more recent Fuller acquisitions include a $575 million-dollar
industrial adhesive company named ''Forbo'' ''Bringing the future into focus. Faster.'' (Forbo's marketing
slogan) Another Fuller strategy: Margin improvement by completing the integration of Forbo's industrial
adhesives business with growth in emerging markets, notably Latin America and Asia, by building strong
infrastructures; and effectively managing margins through cycles of raw material cost inflation and deflation.
In 2012, Fuller also acquired an electronics company named ''Engent'' (slogan: ''Enabling next generation
technologies''). Also in 2012, Fuller opened a new 7,000-square-meter manufacturing facility, which has been
built at Shirwal, in Pune, India, in order to satisfy its expanded sales-growth marketing requirements into the
Indian market until the year 2020. In 2011, Fuller acquired ''Liquamelt Corp.'', and patented ''Liquamelt''
adhesive system. Fuller appears to have divested itself of its Latin America high-lead-content paints ''Grupo''
''Kativo''. Fuller allegedly improved its safety record in 2012. Also, due to its alleged concern for its employees
and the community, Fuller received awards for being one of the world's 200 most ethical companies in 2012 and
2013 ''It's a core value at Fuller, to win the right way. That means, for us, winning ethically, with good respect
for our people.'' In order to download Fuller's most recent ''Proxy Statement'', ''Annual Report'', and/or to hear an
audio recording of excerpts from Fuller's ''Annual Meeting of Shareholders'', use the following link:
https://central.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/vsm/web.do?pvskey=FUL

Black Mark for a 'Good Citizen'

By DIANA B. HENRIQUES
Published: November 26, 1995

WHEN it comes to business ethics, few American corporations have a better image than the H.B. Fuller
Company of St. Paul, a leading manufacturer of industrial glues, coatings and paints. Awards, honors
and inclusion in various socially conscious mutual funds attest to its standing as a good corporate
citizen.
But that reputation is being clouded by the company's handling of a stubborn image-staining problem:
the illegal abuse of its shoemaker's glue by homeless Central American children, who have become
addicted to the product's intoxicating but dangerous fumes.
Some child welfare advocates, led by Covenant House in New York City, have demanded for years that
the company add a noxious oil to its glue to discourage abusers. The company has resisted that
approach possibly because it might reduce the glue's effectiveness, possibly because the smell would
be irritating to legitimate users. Fuller will say only that it is doing all it reasonably can to prevent
abuse.
Now this simmering dispute may boil over into something more serious for the company's image, and
for its shareholders. Lawyers will decide by the end of the year whether to press ahead with a
wrongful-death suit against Fuller on behalf of the family of a Guatemalan teen-ager who died in 1993.
The legal team is also weighing the expansion of that suit into a class action, said one of the lawyers,
Scott Hendler of Austin, Tex. By some estimates, tens of thousands of Central American children sniff
some sort of glue.
Officers of Covenant House's Latin American subsidiary are "anxious that we go forward with this
case," Mr. Hendler said, "because they are absolutely convinced that Fuller's glue was responsible for
the boy's death and that Fuller has been negligent in dealing with this problem."
William Belknap, a Fuller spokesman, would not respond to specific questions but provided a one-page
statement. "We are a law-abiding company with a long history of concern for product safety," it said.
"We make and sell only legitimate products for legitimate purposes." The statement also listed briefly
the steps the company has taken in recent years "to reduce the likelihood" of its glue being abused,
including substituting a slightly less toxic formulation and curbs on retail sales in Honduras and
Guatemala.
The Fuller experience provides a textbook example of the thorny moral equations that lie beyond the
simple arithmetic of the bottom line. But few agree on what lessons it offers: Does it teach that those
who pursue the "good citizen" label too aggressively leave themselves vulnerable to attack? Or does it
simply underscore how important it is for a corporate citizen to live up to its self-created image?
And Fuller does repeatedly present itself as a good citizen. Year after year it sprinkles its annual reports
with statements proclaiming that it has a commendable corporate conscience. In 1992, for instance, its
"mission statement" said the company "will conduct business legally and ethically, support the
activities of its employees in their communities and be a responsible corporate citizen." In material sent
to shareholders, it chose as one benchmark for its overall performance an index of socially responsible
companies, thus underscoring that that is a peer group it considers important. And it has endowed a
chair in business ethics at the University of Minnesota.

Fuller, of course, is not the only company to be accused of not living up to its own good-citizen image.
In September 1994, the Body Shop International P.L.C., the cosmetics retailer whose advertisements
stress a commitment to natural products, high environmental standards and philanthropy, was accused
of exaggerating its adherence to those principles. And the founders of Ben and Jerry's Homemade Inc.
have been tweaked frequently for preaching corporate democracy while practicing a more autocratic
management style.
Nor is glue-sniffing a new issue for the makers of solvent-based adhesives. The Testor Corporation
added a noxious ingredient to discourage abuse of its hobby glue in July 1969. And Henkel, a German
chemical company that competes with Fuller, stopped making certain toxic glues in Central America
last year.
But Fuller, which dominates the Central American market with its Resistol brand of glue, seems to
have been singled out for more than its share of recent criticism, one industry consultant said. For four
years, protesters have demonstrated outside Fuller's annual meetings, often in Minnesota's cold and
rain. And some have bought Fuller shares and tried to get their complaints on the record at those
meetings.
"If they had a lesser reputation they would be less of a target," said William Broxterman, president of
Chemquest Group, a consulting firm in Cincinnati.
Timothy Smith, executive director of the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility, which
coordinates the work of 275 religious investors with about $50 billion in assets, agreed that a high
profile in the corporate citizenship arena can invite attack. "But as I see it, the hazard is not in acting in
a socially responsible way," he said. "The hazard is in over-marketing yourself as a saint."
Whatever the lesson one draws, however, the Fuller case should be required reading for corporate
directors, said Lawrence Bear, a New York University professor and co-author of the textbook "Free
Markets, Finance, Ethics, and Law." As Professor Bear sees it, "the question of how directors ought to
act in circumstances like this is a terribly serious one, because when it gets out of hand, it gets into
court."
Even if Fuller loses the wrongful-death suit, it would be unlikely to affect, in any meaningful way, the
bottom line of a company with more than $30 million in profits on $1 billion in revenues. But if it is
expanded to a class action, the impact is more difficult to predict, since that step would make the case
more difficult for the plaintiffs and more potentially damaging for the company.
The litigation will also be an important test for Fuller's reputation not only at home but in Latin
America. In 1994, fully 27 percent of its operating profits of $66 million came from Latin American
operations.
HOW did the Fuller dispute become so bitter? Most participants agree that the answer lies in the events
of the summer of 1992, when Fuller's board adopted a resolution that seemed to be a victory for the
company's critics.
For years, the directors had been under pressure by a loose alliance of child advocacy groups concerned
about the hazards of glue-sniffing among the homeless children of Central America. Those young gluesniffers are widely called "resistoleros" for Fuller's Resistol regardless of which brand they actually
abuse. As that summer began, a national television news magazine was preparing to feature Fuller's
product as part of the glue-sniffing problem.
Then, on July 16, 1992, the board abruptly but unanimously voted to stop selling Resistol adhesives in
Central America. As the company explained in its 1992 annual report: "Faced with the realizations that
a suitable replacement product would not be available in the near future and that the illegitimate

distribution was continuing, the Board of Directors decided that our Central American operations
should stop selling those solvent-based Resistol adhesives that were commonly being abused by
children."
Local newspapers quoted Mr. Belknap as saying that until an alternative was found, "we simply don't
believe it is the right decision to keep our solvent product on the market."
Mary Swenson, a member of the informal Coalition on Resistoleros in St. Paul, said her group was
"ecstatic." "We had a party," she recalled. "We had champagne."
But jubilation soon turned to anger. By October 1992, the advocates had learned that Fuller had not
stopped selling Resistol in Central America and did not intend to. It no longer sold the glue to
retailers and small-scale users in Honduras and Guatemala, but it did sell large tubs and barrels of it to
industrial customers in those countries, and to a broader list of commercial and industrial users in
neighboring countries.
According to the company's statement, it has since taken other steps to address the abuse. It has
changed the product's formula, dropping the sweet-smelling but highly toxic solvent toluene and
substituting the slightly less toxic chemical cyclohexane. It has tried to develop a water-based glue,
which is not intoxicating. It has studied the issue "thoroughly and carefully" and has contributed to
community programs for homeless children in Central America.
But those who expected Resistol sales in Central America to stop in 1992 describe those steps as mere
image-polishing. Bruce Harris, the director of Latin American programs for Covenant House, asserts
that Resistol is still readily available to children in Nicaragua and El Salvador and, to a lesser degree, in
Costa Rica. "If they are genuinely concerned about the children," he asked, "why haven't they pulled
out of all the countries as their board mandated?"
Mr. Harris is not alone in wondering about the gap between the board resolution of 1992 and the
company's subsequent action. Indeed, among experts in business ethics, that remains the biggest
mystery.
"They shot themselves in the foot," said Mr. Smith of the Interfaith Center for Corporate
Responsibility, who nevertheless gives Fuller high marks for corporate conduct. The company has been
praised for a high level of corporate philanthropy, including giving 5 percent of its profits to charity in
each country where it operates. Moreover, the company has committed itself to safe environmental
practices worldwide practices "often more stringent than local government standards," Fuller said in
an S.E.C. filing last year. ALICE TEPPER MARLIN, executive director of the Council on Economic
Priorities, a leading advocate for socially responsible corporate conduct, agreed that the 1992 episode
damaged Fuller's credibility. "If a company seems to go back on its commitments, they have sowed
such distrust that it makes it very difficult to proceed," she said. "And that is the board's responsibility."
Mr. Belknap, the Fuller spokesman, said none of the company's directors would comment about their
handling of the issue, which he said has not been the subject of any other board resolution since the
July 1992 action. "I'd have to say that the position statement I provided you with is consistent with the
thinking of our board," he said. "I can't really go beyond that."
Whatever happens with the threatened litigation, the dispute has certainly tarnished the company's
once-pristine reputation as a good citizen. The attacks are coming on several fronts, including
accusations that its paints made and sold abroad exceed United States limits on lead and a quarrel over
the company's role as a big supplier of glue to the tobacco industry. (Emphasis added)

According to Mr. Harris and Ms. Swenson, paints purchased from hardware stores throughout Central
America were tested in a St. Paul laboratory. The test results, which were provided to The New York
Times, show high levels of lead in many of the samples, including some but not all that are identified
by the group as being Fuller products. Even though selling such paint is legal in Central America,
critics point out that high lead levels are a known hazard, especially to children.
Asked about the group's accusation, Mr. Belknap said, "We have publicly stated at our annual meeting
that all of our products are within the U.S. standards for lead in paint." He would not respond to
questions about whether Fuller's Central American paints have always conformed with United States
lead standards, and if not, when the formula was adjusted.
Given this history of mutual mistrust and frustration, it is not surprising that the Fuller dispute
ultimately wound up in lawyers' hands. On Jan. 3, 1995, Mr. Hendler and a co-counsel, Michael
Brickman of Charleston, S.C., filed their wrongful-death claim against Fuller in state court in Dallas.
The case was filed in Texas to stop the clock until Mr. Hendler could determine that the statute of
limitations for such cases was three years in Minnesota, his preferred venue because he wants to take
the case right to Fuller's home town. He then obtained court permission to withdraw the case in Texas,
but must refile it in Minnesota before the first week in January.
A class action against Fuller is "something that is under consideration," Mr. Hendler said, adding, "We
are still evaluating certain factors, such as how much of their product was out there, how many children
are affected, and the extent of the impairment caused in the children who use the glue chronically
that's the most significant factor."
But, according to Mr. Smith of the Interfaith Center, Fuller's board may soon face another test in the
treacherous world of corporate citizenship, regardless of what Mr. Hendler decides about his lawsuit.
"Fuller is a major seller of adhesives to the tobacco industry," Mr. Smith noted. "They are selling glues
that go into a lethal product. That is another corporate-responsibility issue that Fuller's shareholders
will be raising this coming year." (Emphasis added)
STARTRIBUNE (Minneapolis, MN)
4 December 1995

THOUGH H. B. FULLER MAY WISH IT, RESISTOL ISSUE WON'T GO AWAY

By Marjorie Kelly
In Mexico City, 17-year-old Pedro was one of the lucky ones who got hospital treatment for his glue
sniffing addiction. Not that it did him much good. Pedro today can barely walk, and he trembles
constantly.
In San Salvador, Lara became pregnant at 16 but refused to stop sniffing glue. Her infant has trouble
breathing and experiences night seizures.
In Guatemala, 14-year-old Joel Linares abused glue so long that it destroyed a kidney and apparently
led to his death. The alleged cause: chronic exposure to toluene, a toxic substance found in some glues.
These stories from "Multinational Monitor," a newsletter published by a corporate watchdog
organization are only a sampling of those that are out there. They're about children known on the
street as "Resistoleros," users of Resistol, the shoe maker's glue manufactured by St. Paul based H. B.
Fuller. Resistol is not the only glue these kids sniff, but it's one of them.
Suit May Be Pending
Can these kids be considered "consumers" of H. B. Fuller's products, if the company doesn't sell to
them directly? Are they "stakeholders" to whom the company has a moral obligation? More pointedly:

Did H. B. Fuller contribute to the death of Joel Linares and perhaps more like him?
These will be more than academic questions, if two attorneys have their way. Scott Hendler of Austin,
Texas, and Michael Brickman of Charleston, S.C., earlier this year filed a wrongful death suit against
H. B. Fuller on behalf of Linares' mother. They withdrew the case in Texas in order to refile in
Minnesota, and will decide by the end of the year whether to pursue it.
More ominously, they may also ask that it be expanded to a class action. If they were to succeed, the
potential liability could be staggering, considering that glue-sniffing kids in Latin America number in
the tens of thousands, perhaps tens of millions.
Media in the Wings
If the case comes to trial, media coverage promises to be deadly. Just recently on Sunday, Nov. 26
the New York Times resurrected the Resistol issue in a story on the cover of its business section. The
next day, H. B. Fuller stock fell $1.12 to $32.75, where it closed Friday. As much as H. B. Fuller might
wish it, this issue is not one that's going away.
A key point the lawyers say they would raise in court is H. B. Fuller's "sincerity" particularly,
whether it followed through on the promise it made in July 1992 to discontinue Resistol sales
"wherever it is being misused."
The company declined to comment last week.
But according to the Times, by October 1992 a coalition opposing the sale of the glue in Central
America learned that Fuller had not stopped selling Resistol there. It no longer sold to retailers and
small-scale users in Honduras and Guatemala, but it did sell large tubs and barrels to industrial
customers in those countries, and to a broader list of commercial and industrial users in neighboring
countries.
A Change in Formula
To its credit, H. B. Fuller did change the formula of its industrial glue in Central America recently,
replacing toluene with cyclohexane a substance less prone to abuse. The changeover will be
completed at the end of 1995. Rick Kingston, senior clinical toxicologist with the Minnesota Regional
Poison Center, confirms that the new substance is less attractive to inhale.
In the end, technical details like these may be irrelevant. An estimated 40 million to 50 million street
children live in Latin America, and many of them are sick and dying from inhalant abuse. And rightly
or wrongly, they seem inextricably connected to H. B. Fuller. Like a rich man finding an orphan
abandoned at his doorstep, the company has no choice but to deal with them.
Did H. B. Fuller "cause" their suffering? I'd say no.
Does it have a moral obligation to help them? I'd say yes.
BUSINESS ETHICS
July/August 1995

PRODUCT LIABILITY:
IS RESISTOL TOO STICKY FOR H. B. FULLER TO HANDLE?
Litigators want to paste company with 'wrongful death' suit
over child's misuse of product
By Dale Kurschner, Editor
H. B. Fuller Co.'s Resistol dilemma is living up to its name: It's resisting all efforts to be resolved.

And matters may soon worsen on the issue of Central American street children using the glue to get
high. A wrongful death lawsuit has been drafted and could be filed against the firm in July, says Scott
Hendler, an attorney in Austin, Texas.
Hendler represents Julia Polanco of Guatemala, who claims her son died as a result of sniffing Resistol.
Her suit would seek a jury trial and would be similar to one she filed in U.S. District Court in Dallas
earlier this year, according to Hendler. Polanco asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit so it could be
moved to Fuller's home jurisdiction, Minnesota.
If the suit is filed, Polanco would have a tough case to prove that misuse of Fuller's product led to a
death, and that Fuller's glue was to blame, though other companies' glues were likely being sniffed, as
well. As Fuller quickly points out, the problem is not with the glue but with the social condition that
lead children to misuse it.
But this suit, by itself, is not what threatens Fuller. It's the fact that attorneys such as Hendler and
Charleston, South Carolina attorney Michael Brickman have teamed up on such litigation. Social work
groups like Covenant House of New York critics of Resistol's availability as a narcotic to thousands
of street children in Central America are upping the ante in their campaign to stop its sales by
referring alleged victims of its misuse to U.S. attorneys. And even more troubling is the potential for a
jury trial and the negative publicity it could create on an issue that Fuller has successfully addressed
as far as its customers and shareholders are concerned.
"When these situations occur outside the United States, it takes a healthy amount of media coverage to
get anybody's attention," says Nick Nichols, a crisis management expert and partner in the Washington,
D.C. communications firm Nichols Dezenhall. "Once the debate occurs within our borders and this
all assumes media coverage a jury trial could prove to be a very significant crisis catalyst for the
company."
H. B. Fuller's response to Polanco's possible suit is, "What lawsuit?" according to spokesman Bill
Belknap. The company won't comment, even on the Texas filing, unless there is a new filing. And it
maintains that it has tried everything possible warning labels, tighter distribution controls, a change in
formula in some countries, and other measures to keep children from using Resistol as an inhalant. In
at least two countries, it has stopped selling Resistol through retailers. "A Decision to pull the product
at retail is clearly a move in the right direction," Nichols says. "To hold the company accountable for
how its industrial customers behave is beyond rational judgment."
Various media and groups like Covenant House are trying to do just that, however. They claim Fuller is
giving lip service to a problem it could solve by adding a foul odor to its glue, or by discontinuing its
sales "wherever it is being misused" as the company said would do in 1992.
Indeed, it is statements like that made by Fuller President and CEO Walter Kissling on July 17, 1992,
that may hurt the company the most (see sidebar following). "It's a key point to the case," Hendler says.
"Representing they would take progressive steps, then not following through with them that's what
tipped the scale on whether Fuller was sincere in dealing with this problem."
Nichols agrees. "What makes this case worse is the appearance, true or not, that the company's
solutions to the problem were not fully exercised," he says. "That could leave the jury, but more
importantly the other key audiences, with the perception that the company didn't do what it said it
would, and that it doesn't care."
John Schultz, a money manager with Ethical Investments Inc. in Minneapolis, says Fuller has done
everything it can to remedy the situation. And he questions the validity of Polanco's claims. "If they
were to win this suit and they will not it would put any volatile-based business out of business.
Makers of paints, aerosols, even gasoline," he says.

In the Texas suit, Polanco among other things alleged Fuller had the opportunity to add ingredients that
would make the glue less attractive as an inhalant, but refused; was negligent because it knowingly
designed the glue in a way that attracts children; and failed to test the product's attractiveness to, and,
harmful effects on, children, despite knowing that children were misusing it.
More than any other manufacturer of adhesives, paint and other chemical products, Fuller has earned a
U.S. reputation over the years for being socially responsible. It is a member of the Coalition for
Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES); it has given 5 percent of its U.S. pre-tax earnings
to charity since 1976; by 1997, it plans to give 5 percent of its annual worldwide pre-tax earnings to
charity.
Given such corporate kindness, it makes little sense that Fuller would be as "wrongful" about Resistol
as Polanco and other critics allege. Indeed, Belknap says if anyone's ethics are questionable, it is those
of Fuller's critics.
For example, Covenant House, in recent months has accused Fuller of selling a wood treatment product
containing the toxic insecticide pentachlorophenol in Central America; it says its representatives can
still walk into stores and buy Fuller's brand with that insecticide; it doesn't tell people, however, that
Fuller discontinued sales of such products five years ago, and that what it is finding could very well be
remnant inventory. When asked about that point, a Covenant House representative says Fuller should
have recalled the product.
"We're doing everything we can and what we think is right," Belknap says about Resistol. "But what is
the role of the activists in all this? How can they bring about positive change?"
The solution is not for Fuller and other companies to stop selling toxic glues, but rather to help get
children off the streets and into productive lives, he says. Fuller has said previously that its goal is to
help get children off the streets in Central America. It donates thousands of dollars each year to
children's groups aiding in that effort. But Belknap refuses to say how much, because, when revealed in
the past, critics complained it's not enough for an international company with $1 billion in sales and
$30 million in net income.
As for Resistol hurting people, "we're no different from people who make Glade air freshener or
gasoline," he says. "We make a legitimate product that is sold for legitimate purposes. We distribute it
as controlled as we can, and we do everything we're expected to do."
SIDEBAR:
How H. B. Fuller's statements have changed since it said it would discontinue sales of solventbased glues wherever they're being misused.
July 1992
Board of Directors and management state the company will discontinue the sale of Resistol glue in
Central America "wherever it is being misused." President and Chief Operating Officer (today CEO)
Walter Kissling says, "Until we can come up with a substitution for the solvent-based glues that are
sniffed by kids, we will just pull out of the market."
The media responds favorably. In an editorial titled "Kids Before Profits, H. B. Fuller's Way," the
Minneapolis StarTribune says, "The company made the right choice on a complex issue. Fuller's board
of directors decided to stop selling glue to hundreds of small shoemakers. How many companies might
instead have stopped with 'it's not our problem that the kids get the glue. We sell to legitimate users.' "
October 1992
Dick Johnson, Fuller's vice president of corporate affairs tells Minneapolis/St. Paul CityBusiness the
company has discontinued sales of Resistol to its industrial and retail users only in Guatemala and

Honduras, where its misuse is most prevalent. Instead, an adhesive similar to Resistol is being sold to
industrial customers, he says.
September 1993
Spokesman Bill Belknap tells the StarTribune the company is still selling Resistol to its industrial
customers in Guatemala and Honduras, but has tightened its distribution system, and is no longer
selling the glue through retail outlets. Activists say there are many channels through which glue at
factories winds up in the hands of children.
July 1995
Belknap says the company's efforts (stopping retail sales in two countries) have proven ineffective
proof, he says, that the problem is not with the glue but the social conditions that lead children to want
to inhale it. "We're no different from people who manufacture Glade or who make gasoline. We make a
legitimate product that is sold for legitimate purposes."

STAR TRIBUNE (Minneapolis)

21 April 1996

LATIN AMERICA GLUE ABUSE HAUNTS H.B. FULLER

By Paul McEnroe, staff writer
--------------------------------The H.B. Fuller Co. is accused of making the glue that a Guatemalan teenager used before he
died in 1993. Fuller says that it has since changed the glue's formula and that inhalant abuse is
"a social problem, not a product problem."
---------------------------------Antigua, Guatemala At the back of a graveyard overtaken by weeds and plastic wreaths, there is a
white crypt that contains the remains of 10 street children. No other gravesite is kept as clean by the
caretaker.
It's said that the absence of litter around the crypt is the caretaker's way of conveying that, at least in
death, the value of these children is elevated above the garbage-filled streets on which they lived and
died in Guatemala City.
A child by the name of Joel de Jesus Linares rests in the top row. The inscription under his name reads:
"You fought for your life and you live."
In a sense, the inscription is more true today that when he died. Three years after his death, Linares still
lives in the corporate boardroom of the esteemed H.B. Fuller Co. in St. Paul, Minn., as well as in the
minds of human rights attorneys, business ethicists and youth workers throughout Latin America.
He is the center of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his family in January against Fuller, which is
accused of manufacturing a toxic shoemaker's glue product, Resistol, that allegedly contributed to his
death in January 1993. At a hearing scheduled for Thursday in Duluth before U.S. Magistrate Raymond
Erickson, Fuller is expected to ask that the case be dismissed because it should be heard in a
Guatemalan courtroom.
The stakes in the Fuller case are immense. The company finds itself a defendant in a federal case that
the family's attorneys say could expand into a class-action suit encompassing upwards of 15,000
children who abuse inhalants in Guatemala. At risk are millions of dollars and the reputations of the
company's top leaders.

Fuller vigorously defends its glue, saying it is no longer being abused by street children because the
company has reformulated the product and increased the price.
Company executives believe that because they have replaced a sweet-smelling, addictive toxic
chemical, toluene, with another toxic but less-odorous chemical, children have turned to other brands.
But Fuller senior [vice] president Dick Johnson acknowledged that he has no hard evidence to prove
the product isn't being abused.
"I couldn't write it down. I couldn't document it, but it would make sense because it's 30 percent higher
and...the product is less attractive to kids," Johnson said.
Beyond that question comes the issue of whether U.S. corporations will be held responsible for
business practices that affect the welfare of children in the Third World. Also, just how far must a
company go to prove it has tried to keep a toxic product from the hands of those children?
Linares has become a symbol for the welfare of millions of street children from Mexico City to Rio,
many of whom walk around as he once did, zombies taking deep draws off their drugs of choice
baby-food jars of glue, or rags soaked with paint solvents the inhalants that smother their desire for
food and ward off the cold.
Mark Connolly, a UNICEF program manager who knew Linares, said the organization only expects the
inhalant crisis to worsen in Latin America. "The governments can't stop it," he said. "The issue is
availability. The menu out there for substance abuse is so huge. If no glue is available, it still wouldn't
have any impact on substance abuse."
The advocates' case
In early 1992, Linares' frowning portrait appeared on leaflets dotting bulletin boards in stores across the
Twin Cities. Children's rights advocates, known as Coalition [on] Resistoleros, said that unless he
received money for a transplant, Linares would soon die, allegedly because his organs were destroyed
from sniffing paint thinner and toluene-based glue.
Much of that glue, said these advocates, came from the Central American production plants of the
Fuller Company, a multinational Fortune 500 company that rose in stature under the leadership of
Elmer L. Andersen, ex-governor of Minnesota. With his guidance and then that of his son, Tony the
company has prided itself as one of the leading socially responsible businesses in the United States,
funding a chair on the study of business ethics at the University of Minnesota, as well as establishing a
charitable foundation dedicated to the environment, the arts and social programs.
Founded in 1887, Fuller is a world-wide manufacturer of adhesives, sealants and paint coatings. The
company says its sales of solvent adhesives in Latin America represent a fraction of 1 percent of its
total revenues.
Fuller will not divulge what its market share in glue sales is in Central America but says that in recent
years it has profits of about $450,000 a year from glue sales in the region. Executives said the cost of
dealing with the public relations issue that shadows the company has outweighed that profit.
Fuller says it stays in the Latin American market because "We believe those little [shoe] businesses
need to survive," said Johnson. "They provide employment, help relieve the issue of poverty, and we're
willing to do whatever we can."
The Linares case isn't the only issue that the company is facing these days. At Fuller's annual meeting
last week, a Catholic health-care organization, that owns stock, urged that the company stop supplying
glue to tobacco companies in the United States and abroad because peripheral companies such as Fuller
may be the next target in cigarette-related lawsuits. (Emphasis added)

The Minnesota-based Coalition [on] Resistoleros chose Fuller as a target of protest because they argued
that Resistol had been widely abused for years in Latin America. Gangs of hungry children hanging out
on street corners had assumed a generic identity the Resistoleros whether they inhaled that brand or
not.
Much of the coalition's effort in the early 1990s centered on pressuring the company to add a harshsmelling oil-of-mustard ingredient to Resistol. They believed such an additive would discourage
Resistol's use but the company said such a move would be useless.
At 16, Linares died in a halfway house for street children in Guatemala City, reportedly just before his
mother was going to donate one of her kidneys to him. Joel Linares was mostly forgotten.
That is until January, when Fuller found itself accused of contributing to his death. In the complaint
filed against the company, Fuller is accused of knowingly making an "extremely addictive product" that
caused "severe physical and neurological damage" to thousands of Central American children, not
doing enough to prevent the glue from getting to the children, failing to warn of the dangers of inhaling
the product and refusing to add deterrents that would keep children from inhaling it.
In its defense, Fuller contends that it "neither manufactured nor sold Resistol," according to court briefs
filed by the company's attorney, former U.S. Magistrate Jan Symchych. Rather, it was Fuller's
subsidiary, Fuller-Guatemala, that actually made and sold Resistol, according to the briefs. The
allegations "are nothing more than an attempt to hold Fuller liable for acts and omissions of its secondtier Guatemalan subsidiary," the briefs said.
"The guts of Fuller's defense in the Linares case is that black-market dealers are responsible for the
tragic abuse of children in Central America," said Symchych in an interview. "But before we get to that
issue, there will have to be a decision whether an American court...is willing to impose American legal
principles on foreign disputes. It's like the Union Carbide poison gas case in Bhopal, India. A court in
the U.S. concluded it would be an act of American arrogance to keep the case in the U.S. and it was
fought in India."
Scott Hendler, an Austin, Texas attorney who is leading the case against Fuller on behalf of the Linares
family, argues that crucial corporate decisions made at Fuller's headquarters in Minnesota dictated
Fuller's Latin American glue operations.
Hendler has studied international human rights law and policy at the Inter-American Court of Rights in
Costa Rica and is a member of the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.
He said attorneys from three firms across the country, including Heins, Mills & Olson of Minneapolis,
"are amassing a war chest of $1 million" to fight the Fuller case.
"Fuller consciously chose to market its glue products in countries where it knew its products were
subject to widespread use by children and virtually no regulation," said Hendler's brief.
"As a result of Fuller's corporate policy decisions made in Minnesota not in the office of a
Guatemalan subsidiary an entire generation of children was knowingly endangered because of this
dangerous, toxic product," said Hendler in an interview.
"The body count goes up and Fuller chalks it up as the price of doing business. To say their product is
no longer being abused, to me is an implicit admission that these children were previously loyal to
Resistol, which is what we contend."
Fuller: No more abuse
One of Fuller's advertising slogans is" "We work chemistry into answers."
And Fuller says it may have found the one that solves the inhalant-abuse problem.

This past winter, Fuller began testing a water-based non-toxic glue among Central American
manufacturers who are making 5,000 pairs of shoes with the experimental formula. The company says
it is optimistic that the formula will hold up and that the region's shoe market will be influenced to use
the new product.
They deny they are pushing for a new solution because of pressure from the children's advocates, but
because toxic glue solvents are an environmental issue.
Even before this, the company said it took significant steps that addressed the issue of children's
welfare and abuse of toxic substances.
Fuller's Dick Johnson says that beginning in 1994, Fuller changed the chemical makeup of its glue
because it wanted Resistol to be "less attractive" to children.
It decided to replace toluene with a less-toxic and less-aromatic chemical, cyclohexane, so that by the
end of that year there would not be any toluene-based Resistol on the shelves in Latin America. Along
with the reformulation came a 30-percent price increase. And for those two reasons, the company
believes children are not inhaling its product.
"There are six or seven other manufacturers in Central America that make toluene-based products,"
says Johnson. "Our feeling today is that after doing some discussion with our people down there, that
the kids are using other products that are toluene based and not using our products with cyclohexane."
Richard Kingston, senior clinical toxicologist for the Minnesota Regional Poison Center at St. Paul
Ramsey Medical Center and assistant professor of pharmacy at the University of Minnesota, support
Fuller's view. "It [cyclohexane] is less volatile than toluene, and so less desirable" to abusers. "It's more
difficult to get high concentrations of cyclohexane because it does not evaporate as quickly." Kingston
has consulted with Fuller but it's not known if he will testify on behalf of the company, said Symchych.
Others disagree with Kingston and Fuller.
Dr. Herbert Schaumberg of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y., one of the most
highly regarded experts in the United States on inhalant abuse, said that Fuller cannot scientifically
prove that street children inhaling solvents no longer use the company's product. Schaumburg has
consulted pro bono with plaintiff attorneys and will likely testify on the effects of inhalant abuse on the
body.
"The kids will sniff anything to get high," he said. "They would not be able to tell the difference by
smell between cyclohexane and toluene because they lose their sense of smell. It is one of the first
things to go they have an impaired sense of small. It's obvious nobody can tell what's in the baby jars.
But Fuller can't prove their product isn't being abused."
Dr. Tim Rohrig, a toxicologist who consults nationally for medical examiners in cases of death by
poison or drugs, said he's skeptical that glue-addicted children have turned completely away from
Resistol. "I doubt the kids are that sophisticated that they can differentiate by odor," he said. "If it can
get them high, then they will use it.... They may have to take more sniffs with cyclohexane than they
would with toluene but they still can get the desired intoxication. As long as the kids can get that effect,
why are they going to change?"
Walking the streets and markets in the capitals of Latin America, it is very difficult for anyone besides a
black-market street dealer to say what brand-name glue is being inhaled by children. That's because the
glue they use is repackaged into unlabeled baby-food jars, which are then sold by shoe repairmen.
Concepcion Aparicio, a social worker for the Salvadoran government, said she believes street children
are still abusing Resistol.

She scoffed when she saw a label on a can of Resistol sitting on the shelf of a downtown hardware
store in San Salvador. The label said the glue contained cyclohexane, which was unattractive for
inhaling. "All the kids on solvents say they use glue Fuller's and other brands like El Toro," she said.
Roger Zavala, a shoe repairman in Managua, Nicaragua for the past 20 years, said he buys Resistol by
the gallon and barrel. He says street children in the Oriental Market where he works constantly steal
jars of glue from him.
The resolution
In 1992, two years before it began to change its product, Fuller decided to remove the product from
retail shelves in Guatemala and Honduras because it said it recognized the ethical issues "arising out of
the abuse" of Resistol by street children.
Besides pulling Resistol from retail shelves in those two countries, Fuller said it would tighten
distribution on a wholesale level to prevent product abuse.
But within a year, Fuller was accused by advocates of not following through, which attorney Hendler
says remains a large part of the Linares case.
In an interview, Fuller's Johnson said, "OK, so we didn't have all the answers... Consequently, we find
out that withdrawing from the market has not made one bit of difference in inhalant abuse or solvent
abuse by children. Withdrawal is not the solution. If this had worked well in Honduras and Guatemala
we would have gone on. We stopped...it wasn't doing any good."
Fuller still sells Resistol in Guatemala and Honduras. In those two countries, the company says, it sells
only directly to industrial users, eliminating the distributor in order to have better control over keeping
Resistol off the black market. "It's a social problem. It's not a product problem," Johnson said.
Problem beyond Fuller
Marilyn Rocky is the executive director of ChildHope, an international agency for street children that
works with UNICEF, Save the Children-UK and World Vision. She has seen a lot of street corners and
a lot of glue. If it's Romania, for example, the brand is Aurolac. If it's Russia, it's glue and gasoline.
Nairobi, Kenya glue. The same in Southeast Asia. Tick off the country, she ticks off the inhalant.
"The point is that the situation these kids are in, from all over the world, is what makes them all so
vulnerable to drugs. It's not just H.B. Fuller's glue and Central and Latin America," she said.
According to ChildHope, there are about 40 million street children in Latin America. It estimates that
nearly all of these children use or have used common street drugs, glue and thinner being the most
widespread because they are among the cheapest.
One of the kinds of children Rocky is talking about is Maritza Caceres, 16, who lives in a wooden stall
across from Parque Libertad in downtown San Salvador. Three months pregnant, she eats a salted lime
and chases it by sniffing glue. She walks around with a jar of glue for herself, removing it from under
her shirt now and again to share a few globs with friends. Sober men and women pass her by, but there
is no reaction on their faces. The country is hard, the city harder. War and chaos through the 1980s has
left calluses on people who have no time for the likes of her.
Caceres says, "My first baby died from the glue. He was 7 months old. Angel Alexander. The doctors
said it was his liver, and that it was caused by the glue. I almost stopped glue after the first baby died. I
was depressed. Three months ago I wasn't on it. I'm desperate. This baby's father is addicted."
A few miles away, a soul is saved at least for a week. Oscar Antonio Flores, a 14-year-old "flamethrower," is resting at a cottage at the Institute for the Protection of Children in San Salvador.

He's been convinced to come off the street for a few days and get his bearings while Aparicio, the
government social worker, tries to persuade his mother that her son shouldn't be pushed into doing what
is making him critically ill.
He's crying. He's caught in the middle and feeling stretched. He feels rotten even though he's got all the
food he needs. What he wants is the glue he sniffs to ease the pain of the ulcers in this throat and
stomach. They are the result of swallowing diesel fuel that he turns to flame against the city's
nightscape.
In El Salvador and Guatemala, flame-throwing by scores of street children is the latest off-shoot of glue
addiction. The Salvadoran government has launched a public health campaign asking people to stop
paying these children who entertain them while risking their lives.
Oscar says he can earn about 50 colones ($5.75 in U.S. dollars) in a night of performing such theater.
He brings the money home to his family. Home is under an oxcart. Oscar has been throwing flame
since he was 10. He has paid dearly while trying to help feed a large family. Of eight brothers and
sisters, he's the sixth.
Oscar uses glue to soothe the pain in his throat and stomach. "The body asks you to do it. I need it. I
always have pain. My kidneys always hurt."
Whether Oscar will be able to stay clean is impossible to say. Aparicio said his mother had appeared at
the gate of the compound to take him home. Aparicio was having none of it, not convinced the mother
was sincere.
"Three other brothers and sisters are sniffing glue," says Aparicio. "his sister, Blanca, cannot walk
anymore because of the glue. An older brother has two children and he still uses."
Facing the tragedy of stories such as these, Rocky says, is a much broader issue than just Resistol. "You
could blow Fuller off the face of the Earth and the kids down there will somehow come up with 20
bucks and still come back with a smorgasbord of other kinds of drugs," said Rocky. "Fuller's problem is
that they put themselves in their own bad place. The rock has hit their temple."
Still, rather than single out Fuller, she says she believes attention should focus on the issues of what
causes the children to turn to solvents in the first place a longtime argument of Fuller's. "There should
be outrage, there should be the political will to stop abuses of children who are exploited," she said.
"We should also be talking about HIV infections of street children, assassination squads in Brazil who
seek these children out and kill them."
So where does corporate responsibility play a role in the debate?
Bruce Harris, executive director of Casa Alianza, which is affiliated with Covenant House in New York
City, is one of the loudest advocates for the street children of Latin America. Harris was recognized by
Amnesty International as one of the organization's world heroes.
"Our idea is that any product that is misused, we as adults have a responsibility to protect the children
[from] the best we can," said Harris. "Toluene is sweeter smelling than cyclohexane. It smells great.
And if you're a new kid on the block, you may consciously go for sweeter stuff. But if you've been on
the block a while, you go for the high, and cyclohexane gives you the same high."
A family falling apart
For 20-year old Ruth Linares, this is only the second time she has been to her brother's crypt. The first
time was when he was put to rest. It costs 50 cents by bus to make the trip from Guatemala City, and
that's too expensive for her. To buy flowers is out of the question. Today, the day seems longer because
of what she heard the night before.

It was nearly 10 o'clock when her youngest and only remaining brother, Miguel, 18, finally walked into
their two-room hut in the Carolangia barrio on the backside of Guatemala City. As the talk around the
dinner table turned to hallucinations and glue and body parts feeling afire, she shook her head.
"When you are living on the street, the glue takes away your anger and you feel very warm. You aren't
hungry anymore," said Miguel, bragging how he'd been cold turkey off the glue and solvents for two
days. "When I do it, I can see the cars exploding in flames in my mind and my kidneys feel on fire. Joel
started when he was 8. We'd sing on the buses for food or money to buy glue. Because there was no
food at home. In the end, Joel only did the glue. He didn't care about eating anything. When he did, he
would put salt on everything because he couldn't taste anything. In the orphanage, that night, they
waited for him to come to dinner and when he didn't come to the table, they found him in his bed. He
was cold when they touched him."
Ruth had heard this talk before and it only heightened her worry that one of the eight remaining slots in
the crypt holding her brother will soon hold the other. "He's using a lot of glue and solvent," she said of
Miguel.
Now, with her baby son and younger sister looking on, she moved a step closer to the crypt and prayed
for Joel and Miguel: "I ask that God receive Joel in heaven and pray that no more like Joel come to
Him."
At sunset, they left and the caretaker nodded his respects. In an ancient city designated by the United
Nations as a Monument to the Americas, this crypt at the end of the path seems the street child's
monument to sorrow.
"These children will tell you they know they have nothing to live for and that they are heading down a
one-way street to be buried in this kind of place," said Glynn Fry, an English youth worker for Casa
Alianza who accompanied Linares on her anguished trip.
"We are a world treating this cancer with an aspirin. These are children who have been born into the
dying class. That is their fate and the world doesn't really care.
"That is why they go to sleep with a grip on the glue. To try to forget."
National Catholic Reporter
31 March 1995

FIRM RESISTS TIGHTER CONTROL ON TOXIC GLUE

By Paul Jeffrey
GUATEMALA CITY They call it El Hoyo The Hole.
Tucked away in the back streets of Guatemala City, it's a section of town not featured on travel posters.
Crammed side by side, the bars and brothels blare Mexican ranchero music while empty-eyed children
lounge outside, their hands moving frequently to their mouths so they can inhale from a small jar or
plastic bag. The containers hold a rubbery substance whose hallucinogenic fumes help the kids survive
life in The Hole.
The children who live in The Hole represent a growing population of Latin America's youth. According
to UNICEF, 100 million children live on the streets of the world's cities, an inordinate half of them in
Latin America and the Caribbean.
Half the region's children are poor and a majority of the region's poor are children, a growing number
of whom end up on the streets of cities form Monterrey to Montevideo. Rather than fighting to survive
in families torn by poverty, alcoholism and abuse, they prefer to fend for themselves on the streets.

Although it's a harsh environment, the kids learn to cope.

Glue helps. The narcotic of choice for street kids throughout the region is shoemaker's glue, a
psychologically addictive substance which, when inhaled, provides an instant escape from the
environment of fear. The glue's potent fumes ward off the pangs of hunger and provide warmth in a
world of rejection.
A principal ingredient of the glue is toluene, a sweet-smelling, petroleum-derived neurotoxin. When
inhaled, it goes straight to the frontal lobes and to the areas that control emotions; it turns off the brain's
connection to reality, neutralizing stress, pain, fear and memory.
It's the perfect drug for street kids. It's comforting. It takes the place of parental affection. It also makes
you brave; while observing street kids snatch watches and handbags on the streets of Tegucigalpa,
Hector Palacios, a street educator for Casa Alianza, the Latin American program of New-York-based
Covenant House, told NCR, "Look at their eyes or smell their clothes. It's glue that gives them the
bravery to do that."
Yet toluene takes a toll. Occasional inhaling produces nosebleeds, rashes and headaches. Long-term
usage typically results in irreversible neurological damage, kidney or liver failure, paralysis and death.
After years of abusing glue on the streets of Guatemala City, Joel Linares died of kidney failure in
1993, allegedly the result of chronic toluene exposure. On Jan. 3, in U.S. District Court in Dallas, two
toxic-injury attorneys Scott Hendler of Austin, Texas, and Michael Brickman of Charleston, S.C.
filed a wrongful death suit on behalf of Julia Polanco, the mother of the 14-year-old Guatemalan boy.
According to Hendler, the suit alleges that officials of the Minneapolis-based H. B. Fuller Co., which
manufactures and markets glue in Guatemala, contributed to Linares' death by "designing,
manufacturing and marketing a product that was an attractive nuisance to children. They knew that they
continued to sell it without taking any steps to prevent it from falling into the hands of children."
The suit, which may be delayed and moved to Minnesota, has important backers. The head of Covenant
House, St. Mary Rose McGeady, told NCR she was asking what she called "the most prestigious law
firm in the United States" Cravath, Swaine and Moore, a New York legal firm that represents
Covenant House to file a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the plaintiff. "We wouldn't do this if
there was any other route," McGeady said, "but the company is simply stonewalling."
Referring to an H. B. Fuller-funded faculty position at the University of Minnesota, McGeady said, "It's
incredible to me that a company that funds an ethics chair at a university could be so unethical in
everyday practice."
Asked if such criticism of a large corporation could hurt fundraising efforts for her $70 million-a-year
Catholic charity, McGeady said, "You can't let anything get in the way of doing what's right. And we
are right on this one. I don't care if I never get another penny from Minnesota. If we do what's right for
kids, then the Lord is on our side."
DETERRING ABUSE
As inhalant abuse increased visibly throughout Central America in the 1980s, particularly among
younger children, organizations started treatment programs for chronic sniffers. Yet the success rate is
low. Casa Alianza, one of few such programs in the region, claims a 35 percent success rate.
Given the failure of education and treatment programs to make a dent in a growing problem, activists
decided to take on the companies that produce and market glue. Corporate officials said it wasn't their
fault if someone abused a product intended for legitimate use.
Yet one U.S. corporation decided 27 years ago that it could do something.

The Testor Corp. of Rockford, Ill., became concerned in the 1960s about complaints that its toluenebased model airplane glue was being sniffed by U.S. children. In 1968, after testing 94 possible
additives, it decided to add oil of mustard, a foul-smelling additive that's included on the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration's "Generally Regarded as Safe" list. Testor reported that sales dropped
dramatically, as did complaints from police and physicians that the product was being sniffed.
Citing Testor's example, activists in Central America demanded in the 1980s that oil of mustard be
added to toluene-based glues as a deterrent. The social workers and street educators had no illusions
that the chemical's addition would eradicate substance abuse, since hard-core users could always turn to
other substances, yet they hoped it would at least keep many first-time users from getting started, while
discouraging abuse among older users by removing the most easily obtained product.
Glue makers were reluctant to change their profitable ways, however, so in 1987 Honduran activists
lobbied their nation's Congress to require all toluene-based glue sold there to include oil of mustard.
Enter the H. B. Fuller Co., which in Central America makes Resistol, the preferred narcotic for
thousands of street children. In many areas the kids are dubbed resistoleros. The slogan on Resistol
advertisements "You stick it and it never comes unstuck" could apply to abusers as well as
legitimate uses.
When the Honduran Congress debated the oil of mustard bill in 1988, H. B. Fuller weighed in with
abundant corporate charm and a plethora of seemingly well-documented studies. Overwhelmed by H.
B. Fuller's lobbying, in 1989 the Congress passed a watered-down law creating a commission that
would set the amount of oil of mustard necessary. After more pressure and "scientific studies" from H.
B. Fuller, the commission recommended zero percent.
The U.S. company pulled all the strings it could to manufacture public opposition to the law. It
barraged local shoemakers, for example, with claims that oil of mustard would endanger their health.
David Calvert, director of Casa Alianza in Honduras, told NCR that H. B. Fuller conducted a
''campaign of lies."
UNKEPT PROMISES
Observing developments to the south, children's activists in the United States launched a campaign to
pressure H. B. Fuller at home. In 1992, the Coalition on Resistoleros, run out of a cramped campus
ministries office in Minneapolis, started telling the public the story of H. B. Fuller in Central America.
They couldn't mount a consumer boycott because H. B. Fuller doesn't manufacture consumer products
in the United States, so activists called on the public to use moral pressure. While acknowledging that
other companies especially the German firm Henkel also manufacture and market shoemaker's
glue, they claimed H. B. Fuller deserved special attention because it subverted homegrown efforts in
Honduras to resolve the problem.
The criticism of H. B. Fuller drew media attention. On July 17, 1992, just days before the filming of an
NBC "Dateline" investigation into the company's role in inhalant abuse in Central America, H. B.
Fuller's board of directors unanimously declared it would "discontinue its production of solvent
adhesives where they are known to be abused." The decision was proclaimed widely as an example of
responsible corporate ethics.
Yet a year later activists in Central America charged that H. B. Fuller had not kept its promise and had
done little to remove toluene from the hands of children. In Guatemala and Honduras, where the
company stopped most retail sales of small cans of Resistol, it still distributes it wholesale in 55-gallon
drums. Unscrupulous shoemakers, along with merchants in leather shops and hardware stores, resell it
to children in small amounts. And retail-size cans of Resistol from neighboring countries can be found
on store shelves.

In Nicaragua, H. B. Fuller put small warning labels on retail cans, advising that the product shouldn't
be sold to minors. Yet many store clerks either can't read the labels or ignore them. Even Dick Johnson,
H. B. Fuller's vice president, admitted the labels have little effect. "I don't think they have a lot to do
with stopping the use," Johnson told NCR, "any more than the warning they put on cigarettes up here in
the United States." According to Dr. Craig Lofton, a UNICEF official in Managua, Nicaragua, inhalant
abuse has burgeoned during the past three years in Nicaragua. He says Resistol is what kids use most.
Officials at H. B. Fuller seem never to have taken seriously their directors' heralded pledge. H. B.
Fuller's Bill Belknap told The Miami Herald in 1993 that the declaration of withdrawal included "an
unfortunate choice of working on our part." The company returned to the argument so effective in
Honduras that oil of mustard is dangerous, even carcinogenic. Yet chemists say its dangers pale
beside those of toluene, which is near the top of the Environmental Protection Agency's list of
hazardous toxins and made the EPA's Superfund list. Charles Miller, the retired president of Testor
Corp., said of H. B. Fuller's argument, "That's so dumb, I can't believe people make that argument
straight-faced," during the NBC "Dateline" program.
Many of those who work with abusers in Central America are similarly unimpressed with H. B. Fuller's
rhetoric. "If they're so concerned about children, I think they would look at all the possible alternatives.
Instead, they've been very stubborn," said Bruce Harris, director of Latin American operations for
Covenant House. Harris told NCR that adding oil of mustard to glue would cost only 7 cents a gallon.
But, he said, "of the 40 to 50 million street children in Latin America, more than half sniff glue. Hardcore users go through about a gallon a week. That's up to 20 million gallons a week; do they really
want to lose that market?"
According to company figures, Latin America represented 15 percent of H. B. Fuller's sales in 1994 but
yielded a whopping 27 percent of its earning. Harris draws a comparison to H. B. Fuller's production of
lead-based paint in the region: "For more than 15 years, paint manufacturers in the U.S. have worked
under strong federal laws regarding the use of lead and mercury in paint. This is a U.S. company. But
they export old technology, on which you get a lot of return. It's a cash cow for them."
Johnson bristles at such accusations. "You've got to remember that we don't sell to street children," he
said. "We sell to legitimate users who are manufacturing a product, who are employing people who are
supporting families. ...If people, children or adults, get it illegitimately, that's a concern to us, but
you've got to remember that's not our main focus. Our focus is to provide products to industry, to users
who in turn make a product. We do our very best to minimize exposure, to minimize danger, to
minimize problems... We do the best we can, but we formulate for our customers, and our customers
are certainly no illegitimate distributors of street children."
A FORMULA CHANGE
H. B. Fuller has felt the pressure. Although it still sells toluene-based glue in other parts of Latin
America, last year in Central America it began substituting cyclohexane for toluene. According to
Johnson, the changeover should be complete by the end of 1995.
H. B. Fuller introduced the new formula in Costa Rica with newspaper ads in March 1994 claiming the
substitution resolved the problem of abuse, stating cyclohexane was "not attractive to inhale." Street
kids agree that it's not as pleasant to sniff as sweet-smelling toluene. "And it doesn't get you high as
fast," said Harris, "you get over the smell because you're more concerned about the high than the
smell."
The suggestion that cyclohexane is less dangerous is misleading. A hydrocarbon solvent like toluene,
cyclohexane also makes the EPA's Superfund list of hazardous toxins. "The difference between toluene
and cyclohexane is like the difference between a .44 magnum and a .357 magnum," Tim Rohrig,

an inhalant abuse specialist, declared in an interview last year with Multinational Monitor. Rohrig
formerly worked as a medical examiner in Oklahoma and currently works as a toxicologist for a private
laboratory.
Harris questions the relevance of what little data exists on cyclohexane. "(Occupational Safety and
Health Administration) studies show you can have six times more exposure to cyclohexane than to
toluene in a controlled working area. That's fine. But has anyone done a study about what happens to
kids who have their face in a bag of the stuff all day."
Henkel, the giant German firm that competes for marketshare with H. B. Fuller in Central America, has
also been under pressure from German children's advocates. As a result, in early 1994 Henkel sold its
toluene stockpile to local producers and completely switched its product line to cyclohexane. But it
didn't work. "The product became so expensive that the industry quit buying from us in April, and we
dropped the product line in September," Michael Waechter, the general manager of Henkel's Central
American operations, told NCR. He said cyclohexane-based glue was at least 25 percent more
expensive to produce than its toluene-based counterpart.
Water-based glues will get manufacturers off the hot seat since they don't produce a high when sniffed.
H. B. Fuller's Johnson told NCR that a water-based glue was "not in the cards right now," though he
predicted, "we'll be the first ones to have it." Yet Henkel, with considerable hype, introduced a waterbased contact cement here last month. Ricardo Carrasco, the company's regional manager for glue
sales, acknowledged the new glue may not be suitable for many small shoemakers since it's not
waterproof. Small shops also can't afford the hot-melt technology sans toluene used by many larger
manufacturers.
Both representatives from H. B. Fuller and Henkel claimed that production and sales of toluene-based
glues by national manufacturers have soared in the wake of their decisions to partially or completely
remove themselves form the market. Waechter said "misinformed pressure groups" were responsible
for the decision at Henkel's headquarters in Germany to discontinue toluene-based products in the
region. "(Pressure groups) only help local manufacturers sell the product," he said, "which is what
they're doing. They're now selling it to our customers, and nobody is going to stop them. All the
organizations did was stop Fuller and Henkel."
LEGISLATIVE PRESSURE
Besides facing a lawsuit in the United States for its marketing policies here, H. B. Fuller is once again
facing regional legislators angry about inhalant abuse. Lawmakers in several countries are considering
legislation banning substances like toluene unless a deterrent is added.
In November, Rafael Barrios Flores, a member of the right-wing National Advancement Party and a
deputy in Guatemala's Congress, introduced a bill here promising the safety and health of street
children, which includes an anti-toluene clause. A dentist and public health expert, Barrios says studies
show 85 percent of street children abusing drugs use toluene-based products.
"There are other things they can inhale," he told NCR, "but they cost more and are more difficult to
obtain than glue." Although Barrios represents a party supported by large industrialists, he criticized a
marketplace "where glue is sold and distributed freely, where nobody restricts its sale, which means we
live in a country that permits the unrestricted trafficking of drugs."
Activists in the region are pressuring police agencies to use existing laws against those who sell glue to
kids. In August 1993, after pressure from Casa Alianza and the government's human rights prosecutor,
police here arrested nine people in The Hole and charged them with selling glue to children, mostly
girls, involved in Prostitution. Those arrested were sentenced in July of last year to two to four years of
prison. People selling toluene-based glue to minors have been arrested in Tegucigalpa.

Activists report that while distribution to kids continues unabated, the arrests have forced sellers to be
more discreet. They suggest that police intended the 1993 arrests only as a show of concern, not as a
new belligerency against drug dealers. Indeed, seven people arrested last August in The Hole for selling
glue to minors had charges against them quietly dropped in January.
Harris said the arrests, although few, have helped. "Now we can say to people, `Hey, if you're gonna
sell glue, look what happened to these guys,'" Harris compared it to the regional struggle against human
rights violations. "Until you start to get a few concrete cases where you can break that impunity, people
don't take you seriously."
STARTRIBUNE (Minneapolis)
4 January 1995

H. B. FULLER SUED IN TEEN'S DEATH

By Paul McEnroe and Susan E. Peterson
A lawsuit alleging that H.B. Fuller's toxic glue products caused the 1993 death of a 16-year-old
Guatemalan boy was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in St. Paul. The suit promises to escalate
the debate surrounding corporate responsibility and the plight of tens of thousands of Central American
children who are addicted to inhalants.
The suit charges that for years leading up to his death, Joel Linares suffered severe physical and
neurological injuries as a result of inhaling Fuller's products, chief among them Resistol, a glue popular
among Central American street children.
Linares died Jan. 4, 1993. The suit claims that his death was a result of negligence by Fuller because it
knew that the glue products containing the chemical toluene were lethal and that it did not issue
adequate warnings that usage would cause injury and death.
If U.S. District Judge Michael Davis certifies the case for a jury trial, the plaintiff's attorney, Scott
Hendler of Austin, Texas, will seek class-action status by spring, Hendler said Wednesday. Such an
action could create a potentially immense liability against the company because of the large number of
children in Central America who sniff glue.
The suit claims that Fuller designed its "products in such a way that children such as Joel Linares
would be attracted to the products' fumes despite the company's knowledge of the dangers [its]
products posed to children." It also claims that Fuller failed to warn adequately about product dangers.
Fuller officials said they will ask their lawyers to seek immediate dismissal of the suit. Fuller said it
will seek dismissal on the grounds that if the suit belongs in any court, it belongs in Guatemala.
"Substance abuse is a sad and pervasive social problem, whether it involves alcohol, prescription drugs,
illegitimate drugs, gasoline, aerosol products or other inhalants," said Janice Symchych, an attorney
representing Fuller. "Good evidence suggests that substance-abusing children will seek out one
substance or another depending on what's available in their environment. This shows that the problem
should not be treated as a legal issue related to any given product and that it is beyond the logical scope
of the courts to resolve."
She said it was "grossly illogical to put American courts in the position of addressing the social
problems of Central American street children."
After a July 1992 decision by its board of directors, Fuller said it would stop sales of Resistol in Central
America "wherever it is being misused."
As a result, Fuller said it was removing the product from retail sales in Guatemala and Honduras.

At the time, Fuller's decision was praised widely by business analysts and editorial writers, who also
lauded the company's position that inhalant abuse should be attacked on a broader scale. Fuller has
prided itself on funding social, educational and drug treatment programs to try to help street children.
But now the suit is forcing the company's actions to be re-examined.
Children's advocates in Central America, as well as in the United States, say that Fuller continues to
sell Resistol in Guatemala and Honduras and that it is easily available to children throughout Central
America.
Tighter controls on distribution would have prevented Fuller's products from "falling into the hands of
children such as Joel Linares," the suit claims. "An unknown number of children have died from these
injuries."
Advocates say Fuller should add harsh-smelling oil of mustard seed to its glue products to discourage
inhalant abuse. The Linares death could have been avoided if such an additive was used, the suit
claims.
But Fuller maintains that adding another toxic ingredient into its adhesives would harm legitimate users
such as shoemakers. Further, it said it recently changed the formula of its industrial glue in Central
America, removing toluene and adding cyclohexane, a fouler smelling toxic chemical.
Fuller said it has been trying to come up with a water-based, nontoxic replacement glue for years, and
in 1994 it formed a partnership with an unnamed chemical company to develop such a product.

US Paint and Glue Manufacturer Selling Death to Sniffers

An internet article from "Casa Alianza - Regional Office"
PORTLAND, MAINE, USA October 1, 1996. The lives of thousands of children in Latin America were rendered
null and void by a U.S. District Court judge this week who opted to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed against
H.B. Fuller Company of Minnesota on behalf of the family of a Guatemalan teenager who died from sniffing the
company's narcotic shoe glue.
The case was dismissed on jurisdictional grounds. Judge Michael Davis ruled that the case is "immutably
Guatemalan." The plaintiff is a Guatemalan family, and the defendant is the Guatemalan subsidiary of the St.
Paul adhesives manufacturer. Forum non conveniens.
Known as socially responsible in the United States, H.B. Fuller has for 15 years marketed solvent-based shoe
glues in Latin America despite knowledge that its products are being abused by thousands of street children.
Lauded for its progressive personnel policies and charitable giving in the Twin Cities, this same company,
however, has as recently as 1995 marketed lead paints and highly toxic and carcinogenic pentachlorophenol
products in Latin America, despite knowledge that these products are banned or controlled in the United States,
and that the biggest victims of lead paint poisoning are children.
H.B. Fuller says it follows the laws of the countries it operates in. So, where there is no law against their toxic
products, they have felt free to sell them, no matter what the cost to human life. In this increasingly globalized
world economy, few checks exist against the excesses of multinationals like H.B. Fuller. They are one of many
corporations who working on the global frontiers where law has not yet been written to protect the people - can
get away with murder.
Contact: Kathleen Begala.
Ph 00 11 1 (301) 504-0580 Ext. 1193

Worse than heroin

Solvent-based shoe glues as a principal drug company operating without legal permit:
The Costa Rican Ministry of Health has ordered the US multinational H.B. Fuller Costa Rica, S.A. to comply with
local laws and change the label on their toxic glue products to reflect both the toxicity and addictiveness of their
Resistol contact cement.
Responding to a formal complaint from the child advocacy group "Casa Alianza", a branch of the New York
based "Covenant House", the Costa Rican Ministry of Health emitted an April 27th, 1998 order to the subsidiary
of the St. Paul, Minnesota based company to "proceed to change the labels of the cited product within the
prudential period of fifteen working days". H.B. Fuller's operations for the whole of Latin America are based in
San Jose.
The Director of the Registry and Controls section of the Ministry, Ernesto Hodgson Dixon, also ordered that "the
labels of the products which are actually in the national market" also be changed within the same period "from
the date of issuance of this resolution".
Although they are chemicals, solvent based shoe glues are the principal "drug" of choice amongst the estimated
40 million street children in Latin America. Street children, often as young as just 5 or 6 years old, inhale the
potent solvent based glues to try and suppress feelings of hunger, cold and abandonment. The toluene or
cyclohexane solvents used in shoe glues cause permanent and irreversible brain damage in the pre-pubescent
street children.
Casa Alianza has led a seven year campaign against the H.B. Fuller company and other multinationals, trying to
halt the use of dangerous solvents in such readily available over-the-counter products. The global attention
brought to this campaign has resulted in major articles against H.B. Fuller in the New York Times as well as
major television reports on US, Spanish and British stations. A federal lawsuit was brought against H.B. Fuller in
the Minnesota state courts in 1996, accusing the H.B. Fuller company in the wrongful death of Joel Linares,
a 16-year-old street child from Guatemala who died from kidney failure as a result of sniffing Resistol glue. The
case, presented by Austin (Texas) lawyer Scott Hendler, was eventually dismissed on geographical grounds
without responding to its content. A further lawsuit against the billion dollar company is reportedly planned.
H.B. Fuller has stated publicly that they comply with all the laws in the countries where they operate. This is
obviously just another un-truth as Fuller has now come unstuck once again, commented Bruce Harris, the
Executive Director of Latin American Programs for Covenant House. As a result of Harris' and Covenant House's
complaint to the Ministry of Health in this Central American nation, it was discovered that H.B. Fuller Costa Rica
has been functioning without an "Operating Permit" as required by Costa Rican law. So much for truth and
compliance, commented Harris. The Fortune 500 multinational was, until recently, headed by Walter Kissling, a
Costa Rican.
This stuff is worse than heroin, explained famed neurologist Herb Schaumberg, referring to the solvent based
glues in a recent international television production on the plight of "resistoleros", as Honduran street children
are generically called after H.B. Fuller's Resistol product. With heroin you get addicted, but it doesn't destroy
your brain like this stuff does. This is very insidious. The children do not realize it is happening to them.
The Latin American branch of Covenant House annually serves more than 4,000 street children in Mexico,
Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, almost all of whom have consumed solvent based glues. We are
spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year treating children who have been permanently damaged as a
result of multinationals going after high profit margins at whatever social cost, continues the British born Harris.
H.B. Fuller reports 13% of global sales yet 27% of global profits from its Latin American operations. It's about
time that companies put people before profits, demanded Harris, who has been successful in pushing for stricter
legislation in all Central American countries.
The labeling requirements introduced here in Costa Rica were as a result of our working with the Ministry of
Health, helping them to assume their responsibility for the street children of their country. Now they must enforce
their laws against renegade multinationals who are only interested in the almighty dollar at whatever cost.
H.B. Fuller has until Tuesday, May 19th, 1998 to comply with the Costa Rican law or face further legal actions.

Copyright (c) 2001 ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law 2002
INTERNATIONAL LAW WEEKEND PROCEEDINGS: NOTE AND COMMENT: THE PLIGHT OF
THE STREET CHILDREN OF LATIN AMERICA WHO ARE ADDICTED TO SNIFFING GLUE,
AND THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS
Spring, 2002, 8 ILSA J Int'l & Comp L 599
Author: Charmaine J. Comprosky *Excerpt:
I. INTRODUCTION
A great concern for the international community is protecting the rights of children around the world.1
Currently, there are approximately 100 million abandoned street children in the world.2 In Latin
American countries there are approximately forty million street children;3 and there is an estimation
that this number will continue to increase, as poverty becomes more widespread in the urban areas of
these countries.4 The street children in Latin American countries like Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras,
and Columbia learn daily how to survive on the rough streets of the cities.5 Their lives often involve
sleeping on the cold hard cement, begging for food, stealing from the locals and tourists, selling their
bodies for sex, and sniffing glue in order to escape reality.6 Many of these children end up on the city
streets of these Latin American countries because they have made a choice to fend for themselves in the
harsh environment of the streets, as opposed to fight to survive in families torn apart by poverty,
alcoholism and abuse.7
Thus, part one of this comment will give a general overview of the street children in Latin America;
examine some of the problems these street children face on a daily basis; and discuss the children's
addiction to sniffing glue. Part two will give a general overview of the involvement of H.B. Fuller Co.,
an American corporation that has manufactured the glue in its own Central American plants.8 Part ...

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TINSLEY VELMA JR

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TOLES IRA

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TRUITT MARVIN LEE ESTATE

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TUCKER JACK WOODSON

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TURNER SAMUEL BARNARD

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TURNER WALKER

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UNDERWOOD BOBBY CHARLES

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VANDEGRIFT MICKEY JOE

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VINING HUEWTT HENRY ESTATE

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VINTSON ROBERT TERRY

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WALKER JAMES THOMAS
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WALTON WILLIAM FRANK

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WALTON WILLIAM LOUIS ESTATE

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WARD ARTHUR OSBORNE

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WARREN JOHN

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WATKINS TOMMIE

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WATSON EARTHA

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WEBB HENRY LAWRENCE

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WHEELER RICHARD JONES

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WILLARD GEORGE

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WILLIAMS CHARLES

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WILLIAMS HILL JR

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WILSON CARL FRANKLIN

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WILSON HENRY LOUIS

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WILSON STEPHEN AUBREY SR

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WINSLETT WILLIAM JACK SR

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WOODLEY RAYMOND EDWARD

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WOODWARD WILLIAM ELLIS

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WOODY JOHN EDWARD

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WRIGHT CORNELIUS JR
WRIGHT EDDIE
WYATT BILLY JOE
YOUNG CLEVELAND

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YOW WILLIAM NORRIS

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ZEIGLER JAMES AARON SR

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Could H.B. Fuller adhesives, killing tens of thousands of Latin street children,
also be responsible for gluing smokers' lungs closed ?