Meijer makes and markets a hydrogen peroxide product that purports to help healing when the product could actually slow the process, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiff Lashan Bridges filed the class action lawsuit against Meijer Inc. on Nov. 23 in a Michigan federal court, alleging violations of state and federal consumer laws.
According to the lawsuit, Meijer manufactures and sells three percent hydrogen peroxide solution identified as an antiseptic promoted “For Treatment of Minor Cuts and Abrasions.”
However, the representation that the product will assist in treating and healing cuts is “false, misleading, and not authorized by any applicable body,” the lawsuit states.
According to the Mayo Clinic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and numerous medical studies, hydrogen peroxide does not treat minor cuts and abrasions because no evidence supports a connection between the number of bacteria and reduction in healing time of a clean wound, the plaintiff says.
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