Kemira Settles with EPA on Pesticide Violations

Posted by |28 January 2013

Pesticides company Kemira has settled with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, including the sale and distribution of an unregistered pesticide, the sale and distribution of misbranded pesticides and pesticide production reporting violations.

Under the terms of the agreement, Kemira must correct the alleged violations, which were discovered in inspections, and pay a civil penalty of $301,600.

EPA also reached an agreement with Kemira Water Solutions after an EPA inspection identified 27 violations of the Toxic Substance Control Act’s Inventory Update Reporting (IUR) rule for the 2006 reporting period. The IUR rule requires manufacturers and importers of certain chemical substances to report the production volume and location of each facility producing these chemical substances. The information collected is used to support risk screening and assessment and makes up the most comprehensive source of basic screening-level, exposure-related information on chemicals available to EPA. Kemira Water Solutions has since submitted the required information to EPA and will pay a civil penalty of $503,110.

Kemira Chemicals and Kemira Water Solutions, Inc. are both subsidiaries of Kemira Group, a Helsinki, Finland-based chemical company with U.S. headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.

For more information about the settlement, click here.