A Mexican company that owns two popular grocery chains with stores in Las Vegas will pay the Environmental Protection Agency a penalty for the illegal sale of disinfectants.

Chedraui USA Inc., the parent company of El Super and Smart & Final, must pay the federal agency $472,369 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, officials said Tuesday. The law regulates the sale of disinfectants in an effort to discontinue products that don’t work or can be harmful.

Inspections conducted in 2021 at two stores in California found that the company was selling unregistered disinfectants with labels that made unverified statements about effectiveness against microorganisms, the EPA said. More investigations found that the products were widely circulated i

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