FIFRA NOW: 12/12/2025
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulates the registration, distribution, sale, and use of pesticide products pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA or the Act), as amended, 7 U.S.C. ?? 136 et seq. The EPA is issuing this Notice of Warning (NOW) to Tiarco Chemical Division (hereinafter Tiarco), pursuant to Section 14(a)(4) of FIFRA, 7 U.S.C. ? 136l(a)(4), which provides the EPA with the authority to issue a NOW. As explained below, the EPA finds that Tiarco violated FIFRA Section 12(a)(1)(E) by distributing or selling a misbranded pesticide.
On March 25, 2025, an authorized representative of the EPA conducted an inspection at Tiarco?s facility, located at 1350 Tiarco Drive, Dalton, Georgia 30721. The facility is an EPA-registered pesticide producing establishment assigned EPA Establishment Number 88276-GA-001. During the inspection, the inspector collected the label, and one or more sale and distribution records of the product identified as Vital Oxide Concentrate MUP SCD (EPA Reg. No. 82972-2).
Upon review of the label collected during the inspection, it was found that the label did not match the May 11, 2016, EPA-accepted label for the pesticide with the registration number 82972-2. Specifically, the following discrepancies were found:
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1. The collected label included a name which is not EPA approved. The collected label included the name Vital Oxide Concentrate MUP SCD whereas th