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newsrel -- L’Oreal USA fined $146,500 for Redken products that violated California air quality regulations

Posted: 24 Nov 2014 11:50:51
Please consider the following news release from the California
Air Resources Board: http://bit.ly/1xNJJ2H

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

November 24, 2014

NEWS RELEASE 14-87

CONTACT:

Melanie Turner
(916) 322-2990
melanie.turner@arb.ca.gov


L’Oreal USA fined $146,500 for Redken products that violated
California air quality regulations

Hair products exceeded State standard, resulted in 11.3 tons of
excess emissions 

SACRAMENTO - The California Air Resources Board today announced
that L’Oreal USA S/D Inc. has paid $146,500 in penalties for
selling three Redken-brand hair care products that failed to meet
the state’s air quality regulations.

L’Oreal agreed to pay the fine after settling a consumer products
case with the state Air Resources Board. During routine
inspections, ARB Enforcement Division staff purchased three
products — Redken Spray Starch 15, Redken Iron Silk 07 and Redken
Full Weightlifter — that contained concentrations of volatile
organic compounds (VOCs) exceeding a 6 percent VOC limit under a
state consumer products regulation. New Jersey-based L’Oreal owns
American hair care brand Redken.

The Redken products were formulated at 55 percent VOC content for
finishing hair sprays. However, since these products only made
styling claims — no claims to “finish, maintain or hold
previously styled hair” — they are subject to a lower 6 percent
VOC limit for products in the hair styling category. Under the
state regulation, finishing hair spray products may also make
styling claims while meeting the less stringent VOC limit,
however, if the products only make styling claims they are
subject to a more stringent VOC limit. VOC compounds react with
other pollutants under sunlight to form ground-level ozone, a
main ingredient in smog.

“When consumers statewide use products that do not comply with
California’s standards, they unknowingly release significant
quantities of smog-forming chemicals into the atmosphere,” ARB
Enforcement Chief James Ryden said. “These violations by L’Oreal
impact air quality and public health.”

The violations, which resulted in the release of an estimated
11.3 tons of excess emissions, took place over a three year
period between 2011 and 2014. The fines go into the California
Air Pollution Control Fund. L’Oreal also agreed not to sell,
supply, offer for sale or manufacture for sale in California any
consumer product in violation of ARB consumer products
regulations.

For more information about California’s consumer products
enforcement program, click here:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/enf/consprod.htm


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