According to the complaint filed last March, substantially all bauxite in Reynolds’ foil comes from outside the United States, where little of the ore is produced, and much of it is eventually transformed into aluminum outside the United States.
This made Reynolds’ “Foil Made in USA” claim false and misleading to reasonable consumers, because they would spend more on products “made in America,” the complaint said.
The plaintiff, Anaya Washington of Bronx, New York, said she bought Reynolds Wrap at Target and other stores, believing the brand as trustworthy and familiar as Kleenex and Vaseline, and wouldn’t have bought the foil had she knows where it came from.
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