Florida Company Tried to Export Unregistered Disinfectant Products, DOJ Says
ServisMed, a Florida-based distributor of disinfectant pesticides, was ordered to dissolve its business after trying to export unregistered pesticide products in violation of federal insecticide regulations, DOJ said. The company, which was investigated in part by the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Office of Export Enforcement, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.
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The company conspired with others at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to sell the products -- which were purported to fight the virus -- but failed to register them with the EPA, DOJ said. ServisMed and others tried to sell the products to a local law enforcement agency and ship more than $250,000 worth of the pesticides to Jordan and Saudi Arabia before law enforcement stopped the exports.
ServisMed will pay $13,330 in restitution to the local law enforcement agency and was fined $40,000, DOJ said. It also forfeited the $250,000 worth of exports and was ordered to “dissolve as a company.”