Flea Remedies Kill Too Many Pets, EPA Warns

		<a href='http://ads.truthdig.com/banners/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a9cd87eb&cb=1353274324' target='_blank'><img src='http://ads.truthdig.com/banners/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=1&cb=1353274324&n=a9cd87eb' border='0' alt='' /></a>	February 21, 2012 Log in / Register
			Text Size

Past Events Upcoming Events

Trending: congress greece gay marriage iran barack obama colbert report

Acts of Love

Fearful GOP May Hope for a Brokered Convention

Ideological Hypocrites

Santorum Staffer Links Obama, Islam Via 'Slip'

Bill Moyers: Attack Ads Inside and Out

Fearful GOP May Hope for a Brokered Convention
By Eugene Robinson

Acts of Love
By Chris Hedges

Ideological Hypocrites
By E.J. Dionne, Jr.

The Lowdown on Fracking
By Lena Groeger, ProPublica

New Look, Same Truthdig

High Court Scrutinizing Affirmative Action at Colleges

Santorum Staffer Links Obama, Islam Via ‘Slip’

Early Astronauts Were Lucky to Survive the Unknown

Mmmm, Test-Tube Hamburgers

Pro-Romney Super PAC Burns Through $14M in January

Syrians ‘Radicalized by Terror’

Bill Moyers: Attack Ads Inside and Out

Taking Citizens United Back to the Supreme Court

‘Left, Right & Center’: Cars, Contraception and China

We’d Like to Thank the Academy ... for What?
By Carrie Rickey

Julian Assange a Part of ‘Simpsons’ Milestone

Déjà Pooh
By Mr. Fish

This Gay Man Represented the President
By Mel White

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Financial Meltdown 101

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

By Susan Sontag
$16.50

Flea Remedies Kill Too Many Pets, EPA Warns

Flickr / jpctalbot

The Environmental Protection Agency is cracking down on topical flea treatments after reports of injured pets surged 65 percent in 2008. The agency said Wednesday that it had received complaints of 44,263 injured pets and about 600 deaths for that year.

Read the EPA press release here.

AP:

The EPA said it will develop stricter testing and evaluation requirements for flea and tick treatments that are applied to a pet’s skin. The agency also will begin reviewing labels to determine which ones need to say more clearly how to use the products.

The EPA’s effort follows increasing complaints from pet owners that the “spot-on” products have triggered reactions in dogs and cats, ranging from skin irritation to neurological problems to deaths. Cats and small dogs appear particularly vulnerable, the EPA said, especially when given products intended for larger animals.

Read more

More Below the Ad