FIFRA NORA: 9/12/2025
NOTICE OF RECOMMENDATION TO REFUSE ADMISSION
Consignee: Diana Elejo Agada
Product(s): Sniper DDVP
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 Entry Number 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:
Passenger Baggage
Product Name(s): Sniper DDVP
Shipper/Manufacturer: Forward Hepu Pesticides Co., Ltd.
Consignee: Diana Elejo Agada
Date of Importation: September 11, 2025
Port of Entry: Port of Durham, North Carolina (1503)
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 not registered.
Pursuant to the foregoing, and in accordance with Section 17(c) of FIFRA, the EPA is