# CERAMIC FILTERS COMPANY
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2021 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3602819607`
- **Case Number:** 04-2021-1474
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- CERAMIC FILTERS COMPANY (settlement)
## Summary

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021 - NOTICE OF REFUSAL OF ADMISSION

FIFRA 12(a)(1)(A) To sell or distribute to any person any pesticide that is not registered under 
Section 3 or whose registration has been cancelled or suspended, except to the extent that 
distribution or sale otherwise has been authorized by the Administrator under FIFRA. Specifically, 
the consignee has provided documentation the ceramic filters, which have been treated with a silverbased antimicrobial preservative, are incorporated into a filter being sold with an EPA Registration 
Number and an active ingredients statement listing silver as an active ingredient and marketing 
materials with public health claims related to the silver-impregnated filters. These claims go beyond 
what is permitted under the treated article exemption described under 40 CFR 152.25(a).

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