Advocates worry the EPA wants to shirk its duty to protect people and fear the FDA lacks the ability to assess the products’ environmental hazards.
Author: Johnathan Hettinger
Slammed for lax oversight of flea collars blamed for pet deaths, EPA seeks to hand off regulation to FDA
Proposal follows Investigate West/USA TODAY investigation into 100,000 reports of pet deaths and injuries linked to Seresto flea and tick collars
Popular flea collar linked to almost 1,700 pet deaths. The EPA has issued no warning.
Since Seresto pet collars were introduced, the EPA has received more than 75,000 reports related to the collars, including 907 involving human harm.
Is your pet wearing a Seresto flea collar? Company failed to report thousands of adverse incidents
Elanco, which bought the collar from Bayer in 2020, did not submit adverse incident reports to the EPA until after a story published by USA TODAY.