# Sylvan LLC
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2026 · — · Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `3604635444`
- **Case Number:** 04-2026-3116
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Unilateral Administrative Order Without Adjudication
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** —
## Defendants
- SYLVAN LLC (settlement)
## Summary

FIFRA NORA: 11/17/2025

NOTICE OF RECOMMENDATION TO REFUSE ADMISSION
Consignee: Sylvan LLC
Entry Number: BTC-01220515
Product(s): Air Purifier HX-3000

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 the pesticidal product in the shipment BTC-01220515 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: BTC-01220515
Product Name: Air Purifier HX-3000
Shipper/Manufacturer: Hongen Environmental Technology Company
Consignee: Sylvan LLC
Date of Importation: October 27, 2025
Port of Entry: Port of Charleston, South Carolina - 1601

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:

? FIFRA ? 12(a)(1)(F) To sell or distribute a pesticide device that is misbranded. Specifically, the device does not appear to be labeled in accordance with FIFRA ? 2(q)(1). The product label appears to include claims that are false or misleading in relation to the efficacy of the product.

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