# ECOLAB INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2000 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `32234`
- **Case Number:** 05-2000-0194
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $278K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- ECOLAB INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

DISTRIBUTION OR SALE OF UNREGISTERED PESTICIDE.              ECOLAB INC. DISTRIBUTES AND SELLS A PESTICIDE PRODUCT,       CHLOROSORB, THAT IS NOT REGISTERED WITH U.S. EPA UNDER       FIFRA.  PRODUCTS SUCH AS CHLOROSORB STABLIZED CHLORINE,      MESS KIT WITH CHLOROSORB AND CLEAN UP KIT WITH CHLOROSORB    ARE USED FOR CLEANING UP SPILLED CONTAMINATED BODY FLUIDS    SUCH AS BLOOD, VOMIT, URINE AND FECES.  SALE AND DISTRIBUT-  ION OF AN UNREGISTERED PESTICIDE PRODUCT CONSTITUTES AN      UNLAWFUL ACT PURSUANT TO S. 12(A)(1)(A) OF FIFRA.

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