# ZEP, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2014 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3400227886`
- **Case Number:** 04-2014-3000
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- ZEP, INC. (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

3/12/14 - COMPLAINT FILED. 
ALLEGATIONS:
ON MAY 26, 2011, EPA INSPECTED RESPONDENT'S SEABOARD DR, ATLANTA, GA, FACILITY.
DURING THE INSPECTION, INSPECTORS COLLECTED PHYSICAL SAMPLES OF THE ANTIMICROBIAL PESTICIDE PRODUCTS,  ZEP FORMULA 165,  WHICH BORE THE EPA REG NUMBER 49403-6-1270 ON ITS LABEL, AND RESPONDENT PROVIDED DISTRIBUTION OR SALES RECORDS RELATED TO THIS PESTICIDE.

ON SEPT 28, 2011, AND SEPT 29, 2011, EPA CONDUCTED AN INSPECTION OF THE LAB LOCATED AT RESPONDENT'S FACILITY. 

THE INSPECTOR REVIEWED 3 STUDIES, CONDUCTED BY RESPONDENT AT ITS FACILITY, WHICH HAD BEEN SUBMITED TO EPA ON OR ABOUT MAR 25, 2009, WHICH INCLUDED:
A. STORAGE AND STABILITY TESTING AND CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES DETERMINATION  FOR ENFORCER ROACHMAX BAIT;
B. STORAGE AND STABILITY TESTING AND CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES DETERMINATION  FOR ENFORCER ANTMAX BAIT;
C. STORAGE AND STABILITY TESTING AND CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES DETERMINATION  FOR ENFORCER FIRE ANT BAIT.

EPA CONDUCTED A LAB TEST OF THE SAMPLES COLLECTED. BASED ON EPA'S LAB TEST RESULTS, WHICH SHOWED THAT THE HOSPITAL DISINFECTANT ZEP FORMULA 165 WAS INEFFECTIVE AGAINST MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS, ON APR 16, 2012, EPA ISSUED A STOP SALE, USE, OR REMOVAL ORDER, DOCKET NO. FIFRA-04-2012-3265, TO STOP THE SALE AND DISTRIBUTION BY RESPONDENT.

IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST FROM RESPONDENT, EPA AMENDED THE SSURO TO ALLOW RESPONDENT TO CONDUCT A VOLUNTARY RECALL AND DESTROY ALL QUANTITIES OF ZEP FORMULA 165 UNDER 

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