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Your Shoes Could be a Pesticide



by Lisa L. Halko
Greenberg Traurig, LLP - Sacramento Office

Daniel Leacox
Greenberg Traurig, LLP - Sacramento Office

November 5, 2009

Previously published on October 2009

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) recently sued a clothing company for selling shoes as pesticide products without proper registration. Shoe labels claimed that silver in the foot bed has antimicrobial properties.


 

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