# GREENBUG, INC.
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2015 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3600191481`
- **Case Number:** 04-2015-3003
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- GREENBUG, INC. (SB) (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

08/05/2015 - CONSENT AGMT AND FINAL ORDER ISSUED, ASSESSING A PENALTY OF $4,590, DUE WITHIN 30 DAYS.

ALLEGATIONS:
ON OR ABOUT DEC 22, 2014, EPA CONDUCTED A REVIEW OF THE GREENBUG, INC., WEBSITE FOUND AT WWW.GREENBUGALLNATURAL.COM. AT THE TIME OF THE REVIEW, THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS WERE OBSERVED ON THE RESPONDENT'S WEBSITE: GREENBUG FOR PEOPLE; GREENBUG FOR PETS; AND GREENBUG FOR OUTDOORS.

THE LABEL ON THE PRODUCTS MADE PESTICIDAL CLAIMS SUCH AS:  THE GREEN WAY TO WIPE OUT BUGS ,  CONTACT KILLER AND REPELLENT FOR MOSQUITOES, FLEAS, BED BUGS, MITES, NO-SEE-UMS, LICE AND MANY MORE,   PROVEN SAFE AND EFFECTIVE  AND  GREEN BUG IS THE ULTIMATE 'GREEN' ,  PESTS WILL EITHER DIE OR DO ALL THEY CAN TO STAY AWAY  AND  REPELS MOSQUITOES, TICKS, BED BUGS, SAND FLEAS, HEAD LICE, FIRE ANTS, ETC. 

BECAUSE THE LABELS OF GREENBUG FOR PEOPLE, GREENBUG FOR OUTDOORS AND GREENBUG FOR PETS BORE PESTICIDAL CLAIMS, THESE PRODUCTS WERE PESTICIDES AT THE TIME OF THE REVIEW.

RESPONDENT DISTRIBUTES OR SELL PESTICIDES.

PESTICIDES THAT ARE SOLD AND DISTRIBUTED IN THE U.S. ARE REQUIRED TO BE REGISTERED WITH EPA, PURSUANT TO FIFRA SECTION 3.

THE LABELS FOR GREENBUG FOR PEOPLE, GREENBUG FOR OUTDOORS AND GREENBUG FOR PETS BORE FALSE OR MISLEADING STATEMENTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CLAIMS THAT THE PRODUCTS WERE SAFE TO USE AND THAT THE PRODUCTS ARE ON AN EPA LIST. THEREFORE, THE PRODUCTS REFERENCED ABOVE DID NOT QUALIFY FOR THE MINIMUM RISK PESTICIDE EXEMPTION UNDER FIFRA SECTION 25(b) A

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