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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001206774-16-006104
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20160527
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20160527

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CLOROX CO /DE/
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000021076
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SPECIALTY CLEANING, POLISHING AND SANITATION PREPARATIONS [2842]
		IRS NUMBER:				310595760
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0630

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-07151
		FILM NUMBER:		161682578

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		THE CLOROX COMPANY
		STREET 2:		1221 BROADWAY
		CITY:			OAKLAND
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94612-1888
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5102717000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		P.O. BOX 24305
		CITY:			OAKLAND
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94612-1305
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<DESCRIPTION>SPECIALIZED DISCLOSURE REPORT
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<P align=center><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=5>UNITED STATES
<BR></FONT></B><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=5>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION <BR></FONT></B><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Washington,
D.C. 20549</FONT></B><FONT face="Times New Roman">
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<P align=center><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=5>FORM SD </FONT></B></P>
<P align=center><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=5>Specialized Disclosure
Report</FONT></B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=5> </FONT></P>
<P align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=5>THE CLOROX COMPANY
<BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>(Exact name of registrant as
specified in its charter) <BR></FONT>_______________</P>
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    <TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" noWrap width="32%"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>1-07151</FONT></TD>
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    <TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" noWrap width="33%"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>31-0595760</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" noWrap width="33%"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>(State or other jurisdiction of</FONT></TD>
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    <TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" noWrap width="32%"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>(Commission File Number)</FONT></TD>
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    <TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" noWrap width="33%"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>(I.R.S. Employer</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" noWrap width="33%"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>incorporation)</FONT></TD>
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<P align=center><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>1221 Broadway, Oakland,
California</FONT></B><B><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></B><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>94612-1888 <BR></FONT></B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip
code) </FONT></P>
<P align=center><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Laura Stein
<BR></FONT></B><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Executive Vice President &#150;
General Counsel and Corporate Affairs<BR>(510) 271-7000 <BR></FONT></B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact
in connection with this report) </FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Check the appropriate box to
indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the
period to which the information in this form applies: </FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>[X] Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December
31, 2015.</FONT></P>
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<P align=left><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Section 1 &#150; Conflict
Minerals Disclosure </FONT></B></P>
<P align=left><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Item 1.01 Conflict Minerals
Disclosure and Report </FONT></B></P>
<P align=left><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Conflict Minerals
Disclosure </FONT></B></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>This Form SD of The Clorox
Company (the &#147;Company&#148; or &#147;Clorox&#148;) is filed pursuant to Rule 13p-1 promulgated
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (&#147;Rule 13p-1&#148;), for the
reporting period from January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2015. </FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Rule 13p-1 requires disclosure
of certain information when a company manufactures or contracts to manufacture
products for which the minerals specified in Rule 13p-1 are necessary to the
functionality or production of those products. The specified minerals are
columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, gold, and wolframite, including their
derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin, and tungsten (the &#147;Covered
Minerals&#148;). The &#147;Covered Countries&#148; for the purposes of Rule 13p-1 and this Form
SD are the Democratic Republic of the Congo and countries that share an
internationally recognized border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the
Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Uganda,
Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia and Angola). </FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Very few of the Company&#146;s
products, whether the Company manufactures them or contracts for their
manufacture, contain Covered Minerals that are necessary to the functionality or
production of those products. The Company has designed and conducted a good
faith reasonable country of origin inquiry to determine whether any of these
Covered Minerals originated in a Covered Country or might be from recycled or
scrap sources.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Based on this reasonable
country of origin inquiry, the Company has determined that it either (i)
believes the Covered Minerals necessary to the functionality or production of
its products were from recycled or scrap sources or (ii) has no reason to
believe that the Covered Minerals may have originated in the Covered Countries.
</FONT></P>
<P align=left><B><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Overview
</FONT></I></B></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>The Company manufactures and
markets consumer and professional products, selling its products primarily
through mass retail outlets, e-commerce channels, wholesale distributors and
medical supply distributors. Clorox brand names include its namesake bleach and
cleaning products, Pine-Sol<SUP>&#174;</SUP> cleaners, Liquid-Plumr<SUP>&#174;</SUP> clog
removers, Poett<SUP>&#174;</SUP> home care products, Fresh Step<SUP>&#174;</SUP> cat
litter, Glad<SUP>&#174;</SUP> bags, wraps and containers, Kingsford<SUP>&#174;</SUP>
charcoal, Hidden Valley<SUP>&#174;</SUP> dressings and sauces, Brita<SUP>&#174;</SUP>
water-filtration products and Burt&#146;s Bees<SUP>&#174;</SUP> natural personal care
products. The Company also markets brands for professional services, including
Clorox Healthcare<SUP>&#174;</SUP> and Clorox Commercial
Solutions<SUP>&#174;</SUP>.</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2> </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Covered Minerals are necessary to the
functionality or production of very few of these products.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><B><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Description of
Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry </FONT></I></B></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>The Company designed its
reasonable country of origin inquiry based on a review of the relevant due
diligence guidance approved by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development, the Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of
Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas. The Company&#146;s inquiry
is described below. </FONT></P>
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<P align=left><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Governance and Management
Systems </FONT></I></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>The Company maintains
standards for its suppliers, which are set forth in its Business Partner Code of
Conduct (the &#147;Business Partner Code&#148;) and can be found at </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>http://www.thecloroxcompany.com/downloads/clorox-business-partner-code-of-conduct.pdf</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>. Among other things, the Business Partner Code
requires the Company&#146;s suppliers to implement programs to ensure that products
do not contain restricted, banned, or unlawfully taken or traded materials, to
disclose to the Company the supplier&#146;s due diligence efforts to determine
whether its supply chain is free of minerals or materials that finance conflict
in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and surrounding countries, or from other
countries designated as part of a conflict region, and to provide relevant
documentation to the Company upon its request. </FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>In conducting its reasonable
country of origin inquiry, the Company used a cross-functional team and
designated a single Company contact to coordinate and communicate with its
suppliers. The Company also has internal management and record-keeping systems
for its Covered Minerals inquiries to facilitate the review and assessment of
the supplier responses.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Risk Assessment
</FONT></I></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>The Company&#146;s preliminary risk
assessment included a survey of all purchased raw materials, contract
manufacturing arrangements, licensees and joint ventures to identify materials
and products with a risk of containing Covered Minerals. After identifying the
categories of products that might contain Covered Minerals, the Company sent
questionnaires to the suppliers in these product categories.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>This questionnaire was based
on a form created by the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition-Global
e-Sustainability Initiative. The Company&#146;s survey included questions relating
to: </FONT></P>
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      Covered Minerals to the Company;</TD></TR>
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    <TD vAlign=top width="99%">whether the supplier deemed the Covered
      Minerals to be necessary to the functionality of the product(s) provided
      to the Company by the supplier;</TD></TR>
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    <TD vAlign=top width="99%">whether such Covered Minerals were from
      recycled or scrap sources;</TD></TR>
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    <TD vAlign=top width="99%">whether such Covered Minerals originated from
      the Covered Countries;</TD></TR>
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    <TD vAlign=top width="99%">which country/countries such Covered Minerals
      originated from and what diligence the supplier performed to ensure
      Covered Minerals do not directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed
      groups in the Covered Countries; and</TD></TR>
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    <TD vAlign=top width="99%">whether the supplier had a conflict-free
      sourcing policy.</TD></TR></TABLE>
<P align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>During the supplier survey
period, suppliers received up to eight reminder notifications from the Company&#146;s
survey management system, as well as email and telephone follow-ups by the
Company&#146;s sourcing contact for that supplier. The Company reviewed and cataloged
the responses to the questionnaires as well as other information it received
from suppliers regarding their due diligence efforts to identify the countries
of origin of any Covered Minerals, as contemplated by the Business Partner Code.
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<P align=left><B><I><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman">Results of Reasonable Country of Origin
Inquiry </FONT></I></B></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman">A very small number of suppliers responded that
the supplies they sold to the Company contained Covered Minerals. Of these
suppliers, all were able to confirm, with supporting documentation and/or
explanation, that such Covered Minerals did not originate from the Covered
Countries or were from recycled or scrap sources. To further test and assess
these results, the Company followed up via both email and telephone calls with
these suppliers. All of the other suppliers that responded to the questionnaires
advised the Company that the materials or products they sold to the Company did
not contain Covered Minerals.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman">Based on the Company&#146;s reasonable country of
origin inquiry described above, the Company determined that, with respect to the
Covered Minerals necessary to the functionality or production of products that
the Company manufactures or contracts for manufacture, the Company either (i)
believes that the Covered Minerals were from recycled or scrap sources or (ii)
has no reason to believe that the Covered Minerals may have originated in the
Covered Countries. </FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=2 face="Times New Roman">The information contained in this report is
publicly available at
http://www.thecloroxcompany.com/downloads/Clorox_Conflict_Minerals_Disclosure.pdf.
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<P align=center><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>SIGNATURES
</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN="LEFT" STYLE="text-indent: 15pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Pursuant to the requirements
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this
report to be signed on its behalf by the duly authorized undersigned.
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    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="text-align: left"><FONT face="Times New Rxoman" size=2>Date:
      </FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>May
      27, 2016</FONT></TD>
    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="text-align: left"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>By:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </FONT></TD>
    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; text-align: left"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>/s/ Laura Stein</FONT></TD>
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    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="text-align: left"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Laura
    Stein</FONT></TD>
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    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="text-align: left"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>Executive Vice
      President &#150; General Counsel and Corporate Affairs</FONT></TD>
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