FIFRA NOW: 1/22/2025
Zinpro Specialty Products, LLC
FIFRA Notice of Warning
Case File No. FIFRA-04-2025-3502
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has obtained evidence indicating that Zinpro Specialty Products, LLC (hereafter Zinpro), may be in violation of, or have committed violations of, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
On or around April 10, 2024, the EPA conducted an inspection at Zinpro (EPA Est. No. 85684-AL-1), located at 411 Ranch Road, Rainsville, Alabama 35986. During the inspection, bin labels and sales records were collected for Traffic C.O.P. and Cool-N-Klean. The sales records for Traffic C.O.P. and Cool-N-Klean, indicate that they were sold or distributed on one or more occasions between January and April 2024.
Pursuant to Section 3 of FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. ? 136a, pesticides that are sold or distributed in the United States are required to be registered with the EPA.
Pursuant to Section 12(a)(1)(A) of FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. ? 136j(a)(1)(A), it is unlawful for any person to distribute or sell to any person any pesticide that is not registered under Section 3 of FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. ? 136a.
The term ?antimicrobial pesticide? is defined in Section 2(mm) of FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. ? 136(mm), to mean a pesticide that is intended to disinfect, sanitize, reduce, or mitigate growth or development of microbiological organisms.
Therefore, the EPA alleges that by failing to file the annual report, Zinpro violated Section 12(a)(2)(N) of F