Hunte Kennel Systems and Animal Care Inc. (Goodman, Mo.) in December agreed to pay $56,632 to the United States to settle allegations that it relabeled and sold misbranded cattle and hog insecticide as a flea and tick treatment for dogs.
The company will pay the civil penalty under terms of an administrative consent agreement filed by EPA Region 7 in Kansas City, Kan., according to an agency press release.
The Missouri Department of Agriculture found Hunte had violated the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act during an October 2006 inspection of the company’s facilities in Goodman and Buffalo, Mo.
The inspections found that the company had bottled the pesticide Prolate/Lintox-HD into different packaging and sold it as another pesticide, Paramite. During the inspections, Hunte was ordered to immediately stop selling the repackaged pesticide.
Prolate/Lintox-HD is formulated for use in the control of flies, lice, mange and ticks on cattle, and for the control of lice and mange on swine. Paramite is no longer manufactured as a flea and tick treatment for dogs. [March 2010 PET AGE]
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