Scotts Pleads Guilty To Violations From 2008
Scotts Company will plead guilty and pay $4.5 million in fines for violations taking place in 2008 over paperwork and toxic birdseed, The Columbus Dispatch reports. Its partnership with National Wildlife Federation ends.
Scotts Company will plead guilty and pay $4.5 million in fines for violations taking place in 2008 over paperwork and toxic birdseed, Spencer Hunt of The Columbus Dispatch reports.
In 2008, Scotts recalled packages of wild birdseed coated with pesticides that were toxic to birds, Hunt writes. An additional and separate incident of the same year shows federal officials learned Scotts was “selling lawn and garden products with falsified U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pesticide registration numbers.”
For a more detailed account of what’s transpired, read the entire Columbus Dispatch article here.
In light of this news, the National Wildlife Federation brought a two-year-old partnership with Scotts to a close. NWF and Scotts released the following joint statement:
The National Wildlife Federation has worked together with ScottsMiracle-Gro over the past two years on programs to educate gardeners about global warming, connect children to the outdoors and help restore habitat following the Gulf oil disaster. Both parties recently announced plans for an even broader partnership that was based on our common interests.
Since that time, Scotts announced a pending legal settlement related to events in 2008 that predate our partnership, which has made it clear that the partnership is not viable. Therefore, NWF and Scotts will work together to end the partnership in a friendly and mutually beneficial way.
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