The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fined two garden retailers earlier this year for selling cancelled pesticides.

Perfect Expressions, a garden store in Ely, Nev., was fined $14,000 this summer for allegedly selling cancelled insecticides. The store was offering Green Light Dursban Granules, Ortho Dursban Lawn Insect Spray and Ortho Dursban.

The pesticides contain the active ingredient chlorpyrifos, which has been cancelled by EPA for nearly all home uses because children may be harmed from exposure.

A Fallon, Nev., garden supply company was fined $2,000 in September for allegedly offering five cancelled insecticides. Nevada Department of Agriculture inspectors found chlorpyrifos- and diazinon-containing pesticides at two HFI Enterprise stores in August 2006.

The stores were offering the chlorpyrifos products Cooke Dursban-Plus Lawn Insecticide, Dexol Dursban Lawn Insect Killer, Green Light Borer II and Spectracide Lawn & Garden Insect Control. Diazinon Ultra Insect Spray was also on the shelf.

 

Retailers can check the status of a pesticide registration number online at http://ppis.ceris.purdue.edu or www.pesticideinfo.org.
 

For more: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, (415) 972-3324; http://epa.gov/pesticides. 

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