EPA Orders Halt to Sales of Food Storage Products

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a stop sale,
use or removal order against New Jersey-based Pathway Investment Corp.
concerning company food storage products containing nano silver. According
to the agency, these products—Kinetic Go Green Premium food storage
containers, Kinetic Smartwist Series containers, TRITAN food storage, and
StackSmart Storage—are marketed “as containing nano silver, which the
company claims helps reduce the growth of mold, fungus and bacteria.”
As such the products contain pesticides and must be registered under the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. These products were not
registered and were not subjected to efficacy testing. EPA has also notified
retailers that have sold the products on their websites to cease doing so. See
EPA News Release, March 31, 2014.

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