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Sciessent LLC

Administrative - Formal · FY2025 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication · 3604124868

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Case

Case Number
04-2025-3813
Type
Administrative - Formal
Lead
EPA
Outcome
Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
Multimedia
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Summary

FIFRA NOTICE OF WARNING: 8/8/2024 Sciessent LLC FIFRA Notice of Warning Case File No. FIFRA-04-2024-3813 Dear Jennifer Moore: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has obtained evidence indicating that Sciessent LLC (hereinafter Sciessent) may be in violation of, or have committed violations of, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended (FIFRA), 7 U.S.C. ? 136 et seq. On or around July 5, 2024, the licensed customs broker Scan Global filed a Notice of Arrival (NOA) Form 3540-1 on behalf of Sciessent for the importation of one shipment of the pesticide Agion Silver Antimicrobial Type AG (EPA Reg. No. 88165-5), under Entry Number 182-09145616, that arrived at the Port of Atlanta International Airport on or around July 5, 2024. The shipment contained 40 drums, each drum weighing 20 kilograms. A copy of the label affixed to the imported product was emailed with the NOA. Pursuant to Section 2(q)(2)(C)(iii) of FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. ? 136(q)(2)(C)(iii), a pesticide is misbranded if there is not affixed to its container, a label that bears the net weight or measure of the content. Based on the incorrect unit of measure on the label affixed to the imported product, the product Agion Silver Antimicrobial Type AG, which was imported and therefore distributed or sold by Sciessent, was misbranded. Pursuant to Section 12(a)(1)(E) of FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. ? 136j(a)(1)(E) it shall be unlawful for any person in any State to distribute or sell to any pers

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