Tag Archives: EPA

07 Apr

Pesticide Companies Selling Antimicrobial Pesticide with Unapproved Claims to Pay Civil Penalties to EPA

Integrated Environmental Technologies (IET), a South Carolina based pesticide registrant, and Seriously Clean, Ltd., of Nixa, Mo., a firm that served as an authorized distributor of IET’s product under a different brand name, have agreed to pay civil penalties of $87,344 and $91,829, respectively, to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to settle alleged violations of

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11 Jan

FDA to sample imports of orange juice and deny entry to shipments adulterated with carbendazim

The FDA announced today that it will begin sampling import shipments of orange juice and will deny entry to shipments that test positive for carbendazim. In a letter to industry, the FDA informed that it received information on December 28,2011, that low levels of carbendazim (in the low parts per billion range) was detected in currently marketed finished orange juice products, and orange juice concentrate. The FDA traced the issue back to the 2011 crop of oranges from Brazil, where the carbendazim is a legally used fungicide to combat black spot, a type of mold that grows on orange trees.

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