The Associated Press
July 30, 2010, 1:36PM ET
EPA orders Missouri co. to stop selling herbicide
KANSAS CITY, Kan.
A St. Joseph, Mo., company has been ordered to stop selling or distributing the herbicide Warthog 2 EC after a batch was tainted with a different herbicide.
The Environmental Protection Agency issued the order Friday to HPI Products Inc. after its herbicide damaged 8,000 acres of soybeans near Beattie, Kan.
The EPA issued similar orders to the herbicide's registrant, J. Oliver Products of Hernando, Miss., and Poney Express Warehouse in St. Joseph.
The Kansas Department of Agriculture began investigating earlier this month after several farmers near Beattie complained about damage to their soybean crops.
Investigators say samples of Warthog 2 EC were tainted with Dicamba, which can be harmful to soybeans.
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