FIFRA NORA: 5/30/2025
NOTICE OF RECOMMENDATION TO REFUSE ADMISSION
Consignee: Valent BioSciences LLC
Entry Number: NLR-40157364
Product(s): VBS-61110
By this memorandum, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is notifying the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that it is the opinion of the EPA that one or more of the pesticidal products in the shipment NLR-40157364 described below, is in violation of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA, or the Act), as amended, 7 U.S.C. ? 136o(c), and should be refused entry into the United States pursuant to the authority of Section 17(c) of FIFRA as more fully detailed below.
The following information pertains to this shipment:
Entry Number: NLR-40157364
Product Name(s): VBS-61110
Shipper/Manufacturer: Valent Canada Inc.
Consignee: Valent BioSciences LLC
Date of Importation: May 21, 2025
Port of Entry: Port of Memphis, Tennessee (Port 2095)
It appears that the product is not in compliance with the Act and is subject to refusal of entry into the United States due to the following violation(s):
? 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 pesticide product is an unregistered sample for research and development but does not meet the requir