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PESTICIDE FIRM FINED $45,000 FOR LACKING WORKER SAFETY INFO. ON LABELS

Release Date: 4/29/1998
Contact Information: Dave Schmidt, U.S. EPA, (415) 744-1578

U.S. EPA NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS

     The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it has ordered Dunhill Chemical Co., Rosemead, Calif., to pay $45,000 in fines to the federal government for distribution and sale of a pesticide lacking farm worker safety instructions which are required by law on the labels.  Under the consent decree and consent order,  the company will pay a penalty for violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).  In 1992, U.S. EPA took action under this law to require that all pesticide manufacturers include worker protection standards on their pesticide labels for products that are used in agriculture.  All pesticide manufacturers were required to have U.S. EPA-accepted labels with Worker Protection Standards by April of 1994.  Dunhill Chemical Co. is the registered manufacturer for a product called Veratran-D (EPA Registration Number 39834-1).   The company had failed to get a U.S. EPA-approved worker protection label on their product by the deadline.  In July of 1997, U.S. EPA issued a stop sale, use and removal order that prohibits the sale of the misbranded product. Since the issuance of the order, Dunhill Chemical Co. has cooperated with U.S. EPA and now distributes the pesticide with approved worker protection standards on the labels.

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