# PANASONY ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
> **Judicial** · FY1985 · — · Litigated With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `25352`
- **Case Number:** 05-1985-0016
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $45K
- **Cost recovery:** $0
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- PANASONY ELECTRONICS CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

REFERRAL OF ACTION TO COLLECT CIVIL PENALTY IMPOSED AGAINST  PANASONY ELECTRONICS CORPORATION UNDER FIFRA                   SYNOPSIS OF CASE                                                PANASONY ELECTRONICS CORPORATION (PANASONY), WHICH DOES BUSINESS IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SELLS AND DISTRIBUTES FOR     SALE AN ULTRASONIC DEVICE CALLED PEST FREE.  THE LABEL ON    THIS DEVICE CLAIMED THAT IT WOULD REPEL RATS, MICE AND       COCKROACHES.  UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY  (U.S. EPA) TESTS DEMONSTRATE THAT THESE CLAIMS ARE FALSE.         ON JANUARY 20, 1984, REGION V FILED A CIVIL ADMINISTRA- TIVE ACTION AGAINST PANASONY UNDER FIFRA, ALLEGING THAT THE  DEVICE WAS MISBRANDED.  THE COMPLAINT SOUGHT A CIVIL PENALTY OF $45,000.  PANASONY DENIED THE ALLEGATIONS AND CLAIMED     THAT U.S. EPA HAD NO JURISDICTION OVER ITS PRODUCT.  THE     ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE ENTERED AN ORDER REQUIRING A PRE-   HEARING EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION BETWEEN THE PARTIES.  PANA-  SONY TWICE REFUSED TO COMPLY WITH THE ORDER AND VOLUNTARILY  WITHDREW FROM THE CASE.  ON MOTION OF REGION V THE ADMINI-   STRATIVE LAW JUDGE FOUND PANASONY IN DEFAULT AND ENTERED     A FINAL ORDER ON AUGUST 17, 1984.  THAT ORDER FOUND THAT BY  DEFAULTING, PANASONY HAD ADMITTED ALL THE FACTUAL ALLEGA-    TIONS AGAINST IT AND IMPOSED THE FULL CIVIL PENALTY OF       $45,000 AGAINST THE COMPANY.  PANASONY HAS NOT PAID THE      PENALTY BY THE DATE SPECIFIED IN THE ORDER AND HAS NOT       RESPONDED TO REGION V'S DEMANDS FOR 

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