Will EPA take enforcement action against companies making false claims that their disinfectants work against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)? | US EPA
"EPA recently announced that it is expediting its review of requests from registrants pursuant to the Agency’s Emerging Viral Pathogens Guidance for Antimicrobial Pesticides. This guidance provides a pathway for registrants to make claims in off-label communications that their registered disinfectants may be used against viral pathogens like human coronavirus. Once such claims are approved, they can be made for the disinfectant in off-label materials only, such as technical literature distributed to health care facilities, physicians, nurses, or public health officials, non-label-related websites, consumer information services, and on social media sites. Nothing in this expedited review eliminates the need to comply with FIFRA." "EPA typically enforces FIFRA through stop-sale orders and penalty actions authorized under sections 13 and 14"