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> "Liggett's sister company Vector Tobacco
>
> currently makes a genetically enhanced nicotine free
> cigarette: Quest
> (cigarette)
>
> ..."
>
> Monday, September 29, 2008 - 8:25 AM HAST
> EPA fines tobacco company $65K for violations at Kauai
> facility
> Pacific Business News (Honolulu)
>
> The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined a North
> Carolina company
> for violations at a Kauai facility.
> Vector Tobacco, a subsidiary of Vector Tobacco Group
> > Tobacco%20Group> of Durham, N.C., was fined $65,040 for
> allegedly misusing
> pesticides during application at its agricultural research
> facility in
> Kekaha on Kauai in 2005 and 2006, according to the EPA. On
> 93 occasions, the
> company failed to follow label directions intended to
> protect workers from
> exposure to pesticides.
> "Employers of agricultural workers must ensure their
> employees are provided
> with information and protections that minimize the risk of
> potential
> exposure to pesticides," said Katherine Taylor,
> associate director of the
> EPA's Communities and Ecosystems Division for the
> Pacific Southwest region,
> in a statement. "Failure to provide these necessary
> safeguards is considered
> a serious violation."
> The EPA said that during the pesticide applications in 2005
> and 2006, Vector
> Tobacco failed to give its workers and pesticide handlers
> the required
> protective equipment, pesticide information,
> decontamination supplies,
> safety training and notification that pesticides had been
> applied.
> The company also failed to prevent workers from entering
> areas where
> pesticides had recently been applied and then denied them
> prompt
> transportation to a medical facility after the workers
> reported adverse
> health effects due to the pesticide exposure, the EPA said.
> The Hawaii Department of Agriculture
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> discovered the violations
> during inspections in 2006 and began an investigation. The
> EPA said Vector
> Tobacco has shut down the Kekaha facility since the
> inspections.