# MARTIN RESOURCES, PAX DIVISION
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `51841`
- **Case Number:** 08-2001-0131
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $2K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** $52K
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- MARTIN RESOURCES (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

THIS ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY ORDER IS ISSUED TO THE PAX       DIVISION OF MARTIN RESOURCES, INC. FOR THE UNLAWFUL SALE OF  THE PESTICIDE PAX TEAMWORK CRABGRASS CONTROL PLUS            FERTILIZER.  PURCHASERS OF THIS PESTICIDE APPLIED THE        PESTICIDE AND EXPERIENCED NON-TARGET VEGETATIVE KILL (THEIR  LAWNS DIED).  AN ANALYSIS OF THIS PESTICIDE REVEALED THAT    IT WAS CONTAMINATED WITH THE PESTICIDE ATRAZINE.  THIS IS    IN VIOLATION OF FIFRA, SECTION 12.  THE PROPOSED PENALTY     FOR THIS VIOLATION IS $3,300.

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