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FRESHPET, INC.

Administrative - Formal · FY2017 · — · Final Order With Penalty · 3600907151

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Cost recovery
Compliance action

Case

Case Number
03-2017-0045
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Final Order With Penalty
Multimedia
Self-disclosure
N

Defendants (1)

Summary

On January 10, 2017, EPA filed a consent agreement and final order ( CAFO ) against Freshpet, Inc., the owner and operator of a fresh pet food manufacturing facility located at 176 North Commerce Way, Bethlehem, PA 18017, to pay a penalty of $14,397 to resolve alleged violations of EPCRA 311 and 312. EPA alleges that Freshpet failed to timely submit to the State Emergency Response Commission (SERC) a Material Safety Data Sheet (or Safety Data Sheet) for one extremely hazardous chemical, anhydrous ammonia, no later than three months after the chemical was present at the facility in an amount equal to or greater than its minimum threshold level for reporting. EPA additionally alleges that Freshpet failed to submit to the SERC a chemical inventory form for the facility for calendar years 2012 and 2013, identifying anhydrous ammonia as present at the facility in a quantity equal to or greater than the minimum threshold level.

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