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SEAL SHIELD, LLC (COVID-19)

Administrative - Formal · FY2020 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · 3602191403

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Case

Case Number
04-2020-0703
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
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Summary

4/20/2020 ? STOP SALE, USE OR REMOVAL ORDER (SSURO) ISSUED TO SEAL SHIELD, LLC, PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OF FIFRA, TO STOP SELLING/DISTRIBUTING UNREGISTERED PESTICIDES AND A MISBRANDED PESTICIDE DEVICE. SEAL SHIELD MANUFACTURES COMPUTER PERHPHERAL EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES AND OTHER EQUIPMENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, MEDICAL KEYBOARDS, MEDICAL SCROLL WHEEL MOUSE AND MOUSE PADS, SCREEN PROTECTORS, EAR BUDS, TV REMOTES, AND THE ELECTROCLAVE UV DISINFECTION/DEVICE MANAGER (COLLECTIVELY, SEAL SHIELD PRODUCTS). THE EPA REVIEWED SEAL SHIELD?S WEBSITE AND FOUND THAT SEAL SHIELD?S WEBSITE HAD CONTINUOUSLY INCLUDED PESTICIDE CLAIMS (INCLUDING EXPLICIT, IMPLICIT AND UNQUALIFIED PUBLIC HEALTH CLAIMS) FOR SEAL SHIELD PRODUCTS IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 12(a)(1)(A) OF FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. ? 136J(a)(1)(A). THE EPA?S REVIEW ALSO FOUND THAT SEAL SHIELD?S WEBSITE CONTAINED EFFICACY CLAIMS REGARDING SEAL SHIELD?S ELECTROCLAVE DEVICE WHICH THE EPA CONCLUDED WERE FALSE OR MISLEADING, AND THEREFORE A MISBRANDED PESTICIDE DEVICE IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 12(a)(1)(F) OF FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. ? 136(J(A)(1)(f).

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