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BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM FINED BY EPA, WILL UPGRADE PLANT
Sep. 28, 2012
Agri-Pulse reports:
Veterinary health products company Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. agreed to pay a $68,475 civil penalty to the United States to settle a series of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act violations based on its mishandling of mercury waste in St. Joseph, Mo.
In addition to paying the civil penalty, the company will spend a minimum of $300,000 to build a state-of-the art hazardous waste storage facility at the site as part of a supplemental environmental project.
According to an administrative consent agreement and final order filed by EPA Region 7 in Kansas City, Kan., EPA representatives inspected the company's St. Joseph facilities in May 2010, and noted several violations of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), which regulates hazardous waste.
Boehringer generates mercury as part of its vaccine production process.
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