# VENUS LABORATORIES
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY1995 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `29522`
- **Case Number:** 05-1995-0569
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $20K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- VENUS LABORATORIES, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

FIFRA ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY CASE: SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF  A MISBRANDED                                                 PESTICIDE.  VENUS FAILED TO PLACE WARNING LABELS IN JAPANESE ON                                                           SHIPMENTS TO JAPAN.                                          ON FEBRUARY 15, 1995, REGION V FILED AN ADMINISTRATIVE       COMPLAINT AGAINST RESPONDENT, ALLEGING THAT RESPONDENT       VIOLATED 40 C.F.R. SEC. 168.65(B)(4)(II) BY SELLING AND      DISTRIBUTING A MISBRANDED PESTICIDE, UNI-TAB, ON FIFTEEN     SEPARATE OCCASIONS BY FAILING TO PLACE WARNING LABELS IN     JAPANESE ON CERTAIN UNI-TAB SHIPMENTS TO JAPAN AS REQUIRED.  THE PROPOSED PENALTY IN THE COMPLAINT WAS $52,500.           RESPONDENT FILED AN ANSWER ON MARCH 14, 1995, ADMITTING IN   PART AND DENYING IN PART THE FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS OF THE      COMPLAINT, DENYING LIABILITY, CONTESTING THE PROPOSED        PENALTY AND REQUESTING A HEARING.                            ON DECEMBER 27, 1996, THE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR EXECUTED A  CONSENT AGREEMENT AND FINAL ORDER IN RESOLUTION OF THIS      MATTER WHICH PROVIDES FOR THE PAYMENT OF A $20,000 CIVIL     PENALTY BY RESPONDENT.  BASED ON INFORMATION SUBSEQUENTLY    PROVIDED TO U.S. EPA, U.S. EPA AGREED TO RECALCULATE THE     PROPOSED PENALTY IN THE COMPLAINT BY ADJUSTING THE           CULPABILITY FACTOR FROM 2 TO 0 PURSUANT TO THE ERP,          RESULTING IN AN ADJUSTED PROPOSED PENALTY OF $37,500.  FOR   THE PURPOSE OF SETTLEMENT ONLY, U.S.

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