Wood Pallet Recycler to Pay $100,000 Fine for False Heat Treatment Labels
A wood pallet recycling company was sentenced to pay a $100,000 fine for falsely labeling its pallets as heat treated, said the Justice Department on March 12 (here). American Pallet Recycling and its former president and owner Raymond Viola, pleaded…
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guilty in the New York Eastern U.S. District Court to violations of the Plant Protection Act in connection with the false labeling, said DOJ. Rather than treat the wood pallets, as required for pallets used in international transactions, Viola between 2007 and 2011 created copies of stamp certifications used by legitimate wood pallet treating companies, which he and his employees applied to pallets APR sold, said DOJ. Viola will pay $1,000 and serve three years of probation, and has turned his business over to his son, it said.