NEPACCO

NEPACCO, or the "North Eastern Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals Co"[2] was a pharmaceutical and chemical company founded in 1966 in Stamford, Connecticut,[3]^:¶27 best known for its role in the Times Beach Hazmat Incident.

North Eastern Pharmaceutical & Chemical Co., Inc

Former type	Private
Industry	Chemicals
Fate	Shutdown for failure to maintain an agent for service of process
Founded	November 4, 1966 (1966-11-04) in Delaware, United States
Defunct	August 22, 1976 (1976-08-22)
Headquarters	Stamford , United States
Area served	United States
Key people	Edwin Michaels (President)[1] John W. Lee (Vice President)
Products	Hexachlorophene

NEPACCO's main product was Hexachlorophene, which it began producing after leasing a Verona, Missouri based chemical production facility from Hoffman-Taff in 1969.[4] As a byproduct of this process, Dioxin, most well known for its use in Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, was created.[4] Although the Dioxin was initially held on site, it was eventually improperly disposed of in a trench in the facility,[5] and by a local waste handler, Russell Bliss.[6]

Following the ban of Hexachlorophene in 1972, NEPACCO halted production on the site.[4] By 1974, the company had liquidated all its assets, and was shut down by the Delaware Secretary of State in 1976.[3]^:¶27

See Also

• Times Beach, Missouri
• Hoffman-Taff

References

1. Gough, Michael (1986). Dioxin, Agent Orange, The Facts. Plenum, United States: Springer. pp. 122. ISBN 9780306422478.
2. "NEPACCO". Little Bits of History. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
3. United States v. Northeastern Pharmaceuticals and Chemical Company (Western District of Missouri 1984). Text
4. "SYNTEX FACILITY; VERONA, MO; Superfund Site". cumulis.epa.gov. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
5. Carelli, Richard. "Court Refuses to Force Company to Pay for Dioxin Cleanup in Missouri Case". AP NEWS. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
6. Powell, William (2012-12-03). "Remember Times Beach: The Dioxin Disaster, 30 Years Later". www.stlmag.com. Retrieved 2019-09-05.