On or around April 30, 2025, the licensed customs broker Gilscot-Guidroz International Company Inc. (hereinafter Gilscot) filed an entry via the U.S. Customs and Border Protection?s (CBP) Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Data Processing System on behalf of HELM for the importation of one shipment of the pesticide Paraquat TC (EPA Reg. No. 74530-37), under Entry Number EAQ-00120183, originally filed under entry number EAQ-00119086, that arrived at the Port of Savannah, Georgia (Port Code 1703) on or around April 11, 2025. The shipment contained 160 totes, each tote weighing 1,055 kilograms for a total of 168,800 kilograms of Paraquat TC. A copy of the label affixed to the imported product was uploaded to the ACE Document Image System (DIS).
After reviewing the product label that was uploaded to DIS, the EPA determined that the label on the imported product did not match the most recently EPA-approved label from May 1, 2023, and contained directions for use from the label accepted by the EPA on February 27, 2020. Specifically, the
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Terrestrial Food + Feed Crop and Terrestrial Feed Crop subsection in the Directions for Use section were inconsistent with the most recent EPA accepted label as described below:
? States ?; beans; dried-type, beans; mung; beans-succulent (lima); beans-succulent (snap)? instead of ?Beans, dry; Beans (lima, snap)?
? States ?citrus fruits? instead of ?Citron melon; Citrus citron?
? States ?corn (unspecified); corn, field; corn, po