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What this covers The VOC limit Which bites hardest on an alcohol-based spray Those numbers need checking Then the date on the container That is a production requirement, not a copy one Two regimes this property points at The shelf is well matched for once References

A room spray is mostly solvent on purpose, and that is exactly what the regulation limits.

What this covers

Car freshener, closet freshener, fabric refresher, linen spray and room spray. Five leaves and one process: a water-thin scented liquid delivered as a fine mist. It is the cleanest scope in this library, with nothing in the taxonomy to correct.

The VOC limit

Federal law caps the volatile organic compound content of consumer products by weight-percent, and air freshener is a named category. For a product whose entire function is to evaporate, that is a direct limit on how it works.

Which bites hardest on an alcohol-based spray

The reported limit for a liquid or pump spray air freshener is 18 weight-percent. A high-alcohol room spray is well past that, so the formulation question is not an optimisation, it is a constraint on the approach.

Those numbers need checking

Table 1 would not serve to us from three sources, so the four air freshener figures used here come from search results rather than from the regulation. They are consistent across sources and they are not quoted from the text, and every page that uses them says so.

Then the date on the container

The container or package of each consumer product subject to the subpart clearly displays the day, month and year of manufacture, or a code for it. Every unit, not every batch record.

That is a production requirement, not a copy one

Somebody or something has to mark each container at fill. A date code printed into the label artwork cannot do it, because the artwork is the same on every unit.

Two regimes this property points at

California treats an air care product as a designated product, so the ingredient disclosure on the label and on a website applies. And a claim to kill or sanitise makes it a pesticide. The laundry and growing inputs properties cover those in full rather than repeating them here.

The shelf is well matched for once

413 containers and 34 fine mist sprayers, with 192 containers on 24-410 and 76 on 20-410, which is where the sprayers live. The pairing is deep rather than lucky.

References

40 CFR 59.203, national volatile organic compound emission standards for consumer products. The manufacturer or importer "shall ensure that the VOC content levels in table 1 of this subpart... are not exceeded for any consumer product manufactured or imported on or after December 10, 1998". Air freshener is a named category in that table and the limits are expressed as weight-percent. law.cornell.edu

40 CFR 59.205, Labeling: "The container or package of each consumer product that is subject to this subpart shall clearly display the day, month, and year on which the product was manufactured, or a code indicating such date." Products distributed to consumers at no charge for sampling purposes are excluded. law.cornell.edu

Reported air freshener VOC limits, from search results rather than from Table 1 itself: single-phase aerosol 70 weight-percent, double-phase aerosol 30, liquid and pump spray 18, solid and gel 3. Table 1 would not serve to us from law.cornell.edu, ecfr.gov or the govinfo PDF, so these four figures are unconfirmed against the current text and are flagged wherever they are used.

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 18 October 2026. The air and fabric shelf is 652 rows: 413 containers and 239 closures, from one archetype across five leaves. 356 PET and 57 glass, from 30 to 946 mL with a median of 200. The closures include 34 fine mist sprayers and 19 trigger sprayers, and 24-410 carries 192 of the containers.

Written from 40 CFR 59.203 and 59.205, and from the catalog as it stood on 18 October 2026. The VOC limits quoted for air fresheners come from search results rather than from Table 1 itself, which would not serve to us, and every page that uses them says so. Confirm them against the current table before setting a formula.