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NEW JERSEY DISTRIBUTOR FOUND LIABLE FOR DISTRIBUTING UNREGISTERED ANTIMICROBIAL PESTICIDES
Release Date: 08/19/99
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FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1999
NEW JERSEY DISTRIBUTOR FOUND LIABLE FOR DISTRIBUTING
UNREGISTERED ANTIMICROBIAL PESTICIDES
UNREGISTERED ANTIMICROBIAL PESTICIDES
In an initial decision issued Aug. 4, Administrative Law Judge Charles E. Bullock assessed a $175,000 penalty against Sultan Chemists Inc., Englewood, N.J., for 89 counts of distributing or selling unregistered antimicrobial pesticide products. The four unregistered pesticides, WipeOut Disinfectant Towelettes, WipeOut Medi Disinfectant Wand, QuicKit Biological Fluid Emergency Spill Kit, and WipeOut Disinfectant Spray were labeled for uses such as disinfecting hospital operating tables and medical equipment in hospitals. Under Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, EPA is responsible for registering public health antimicrobial pesticides to ensure that they work and will not pose unreasonable risks to human health or the environment. As noted by the Judge, the products posed two risks: first, that the very pesticides themselves might cause an unreasonable risk and second that the pesticides might pose risk of infection if they did not work as claimed. The judge’s initial decision will become a final order of the Agency unless it timely appealed to the Environmental Appeals Board.
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