This action adds 70 products to a June 6, 2020, EPA order which contained over 30 illegal products
The Seattle office of the US Environmental Protection Agency has recently announced that it has issued a ’stop sale’ order to Amazon.com to prevent sales on the platform of potentially dangerous or ineffective unregistered pesticides and pesticide devices making illegal and misleading claims, including multiple products that claimed to protect against viruses. This action adds 70 products to a June 6, 2020, EPA order which contained over 30 illegal products.
This is the third pesticide stop-sale order issued by the agency to Amazon in the last three years. Beyond the stop-sales EPA has mounted other efforts to stop fraudulent products, such as partnering with US Customs and Border Protection to stop multiple imports of millions of illegal disinfectant products imported by or for sale on Amazon. EPA has also provided guidance to e-commerce companies on multiple occasions about their requirements to ensure their disinfectant products are legal and safe.
Under the Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, pesticides and disinfectants intended for sale in the US must be evaluated for safety and efficacy by EPA and bear approved labeling with an EPA registration number and an EPA establishment number.
