Judge Dismisses UCL Suit Over Hand Sanitizer’s ‘Kills 99% Of Germs’ Label

(January 12, 2024, 9:59 AM EST) -- LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge on Jan. 10 granted CVS Pharmacy Inc. and its affiliate’s motion to dismiss two consumers’ putative class action claims accusing them of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and New York law, finding that under binding precedent the claims on a hand sanitizer product’s label that it “kills 99% of germs” are not misleading in light of information on the product’s back label....