# EMERY CHEMICALS
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1987 · — · Litigated With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `26498`
- **Case Number:** 05-1987-0266
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Litigated With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $43K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- EMERY CHEMICALS (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

EMERY SOLD AND DISTRIBUTED SEVERAL SHIPMENTS OF FATTY ACIDS  CONTAMINATED WITH PCBS.  SOME OF THIS MATERIAL WAS SOLD FOR  USE IN FEED STOCK.  THE EPA IS INVESTIGATING THE FEED CON-   TAMINATION, WHILE U.S. EPA IS INVESTIGATING THE DISTRIBUTION IN COMMERCE PROBLEM.

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