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PA ENFORCEMENT ACTION RE: PESTICIDES

Release Date: 07/19/96
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PA ENFORCEMENT ACTION RE: PESTICIDES

FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1996

FLORIDA PESTICIDE CORP. AND ITS VICE PRESIDENT FINED FOR FALSIFYING EPA SEALS

On July 10, Marman U.S.A. Inc. of Tampa, Fla., was fined $350,000 and placed on probation for two years, and Robert Renes, Marman's vice president was fined $150,000 and placed on probation for three years for involvement in a scheme to forge EPA seals on false certificates of registration for pesticides which they sold abroad. EPA gold seals indicate that a document is an official EPA document and many foreign countries require such proof of EPA registration before a pesticide can be imported to their nations from the United States. Marman U.S.A. used the forged seals to export pesticides to 16 Central and South American countries. The case was investigated by EPA's Criminal Investigation Division.

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