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    Two New Jersey companies fined for selling pesticides as COVID-19 killers

    By adminSeptember 23, 2022Updated:September 23, 2022No Comments0 Views
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    Regulators have fined two New Jersey companies a complete of $325,000 over false claims {that a} pesticide spray can stop COVID-19.

    The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday introduced a settlement with two companies that make Zoono Microbe Shield, a pesticide spray. The spray was offered with “false and misleading claims” and with statements that “substantially differed” from these the companies gave the EPA, the company mentioned.

    Consumers doubtless purchased the spray “with the false expectations that it could be used as a sanitizer or disinfectant to prevent SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19,” based on the company.

    According to the EPA, the product is efficient towards odor-causing or staining micro organism, fungi and algae, however can’t be labeled as a disinfectant or sanitizer, nor embrace any public well being claims.

    Zoono USA pays a $205,000 penalty and Zoono Holdings pays $120,000, the EPA mentioned.

    Zoono didn’t instantly touch upon the settlement. A information for Zoono Holdings informed the New York Times that it purchased distribution rights for the product late final 12 months from Zoono USA and was “unaware at that time of any misleading claims being made by the distributor.” Both companies are subsidiaries of New Zealand-based Zoono Group Limited, a biotech firm based in 2009.

    Zoono Microbe Shield was offered throughout many web sites, together with Amazon, the EPA mentioned. In 2020, United Airlines mentioned it was utilizing the spray so as to add “an extra level of protection” to plane as the airline tried to influence the general public it was protected to fly.

    The antibacterial maker acquired a significant enhance from the COVID-19 pandemic, which “effectively launched Zoono as a global brand,” the corporate mentioned in its 2021 annual report. Zoono’s world gross sales soared from about $2 million NZ in 2019 to $27 million final 12 months.

    The EPA has beforehand penalized different companies falsely claiming that their merchandise supply COVID-19 safety, as nicely as arrested Americans for selling pretend cures towards the virus.

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