The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Section 7 requires all manufacturers engaged in the formulation, packaging, repackaging, labeling and/or relabeling of pesticides, active ingredients, or pesticidal devices to register with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and file an annual production report.
The report must include details about what pesticides have been produced over the preceding 12 months and in what volumes, as well as estimated amounts of each pesticide to be produced during the current year.
Failure to report–even when no pesticides were produced in a given year–could subject your manufacturer to being barred from producing pesticides altogether, interrupting your supply chain and forcing you to scramble to find a new contractor.
What’s more, chemical manufacturers are required by federal law to report any harmful effects they note from a particular pesticide, which means–in addition to having a sound book-keeping process–they must be a) monitoring their products closely enough to note negative effects, and b) ethical.
Find Seatex in the EPA-Registered Pesticide-Producing Establishments database.