# COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION (APO) (FIFRA)
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2025 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3604258495`
- **Case Number:** 10-2025-0056
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- COSTOC WHOLESALE CORPORATION (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

On May 27, 2025, EPA Region 10 settled with Costco Wholesale (Issaquah, Washington) for violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) resulting from the importation/distribution of thousands of pesticide and device units from June 2021 through July 2023. Specifically, EPA found that Costco Wholesale violated FIFRA by distributing unregistered pesticides, misbranded devices, for violating a stop sale order, and failing to file reports required by the Act. Overall, the EPA identified 3,735 separate violations. The company agreed to pay a civil penalty of $3,066,724.

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