# BLUE RIDGE ELEMENTS, LLC D.B.A BLENDPACK
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2023 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3603560336`
- **Case Number:** 04-2023-0704
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- BLUE RIDGE ELEMENTS, LLC D.B.A BLENDPACK (settlement)
## Summary

1/19/2023 - SURRO ISSUED 

ALLEGED VIOLATIONS:
UPON REVIEW OF THE INFORMATION RELATED TO THE SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF DARKLING BEETLE CONTROL (EPA REGISTRATION NUMBER 67546-2), THE EPA FOUND THAT BLENDPACK?S PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING THE CONTAINER AND LABEL CHANGES, WERE BEYOND WHAT IS PERMITTED PURSUANT TO THE PRODUCT?S REGISTRATION UNDER FIFRA SECTION 3 AND WOULD REQUIRE BLENDPACK TO REGISTER A NEW PESTICIDE PRODUCT WITH THE EPA. BASED ON A SEARCH OF EPA DATABASES, THE EPA FOUND THAT BLENDPACK DID NOT OBTAIN A SEPARATE REGISTRATION FOR THE PRODUCT UNDER FIFRA SECTION 3. 
23. THE SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF UNREGISTERED PESTICIDES BY BLENDPACK IS ALLEGED TO BE AN UNLAWFUL ACT IN VIOLATION OF SECTION 3 OF FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. ? 136A, AND SECTION 12(A)(1)(A) OF FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. ? 136J(A)(1)(A).

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