Animal and environmental groups are concerned that reports of potentially deadly flea-and-tick collars have been ignored by the EPA for 2 years A public meeting held this week co-sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Drug Administration came up with a plan of action which is considered by advocate groups and many veterinarians to be a worse solution to the problem – transfer responsibility from the EPA to the FDA.
The EPA, whose officials said they lack the staffing and resources to adequately assess and monitor the products’ safety, wants to relinquish oversight of all such pet pesticides to the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA is a co-sponsor of the plan.
Read the data and background with reportedly “more than 100,000 reports of harm to pets and people, including 2,698 pet deaths” from the collars.
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