| Title: | Meower Power is Valuing Differences |
| Notice: | FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY |
| Moderator: | MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO |
| Created: | Sun Feb 09 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 11 1994 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5089 |
| Total number of notes: | 60366 |
Last night on 20-20 there was a story on Hartz Mountain Blockade.
It may or may not kill fleas but one application causes many dogs
and cats to go into convulsions and die form a few hours to a day
after treatment. The product was never tested before being approved
for sale. The two ingredients Deet to repel fleas and an insecticide
to kill fleas work OK alone but in combination at the concentrations
used in the product, kills dogs and cats.
The product was approved by the EPA rather than the FDA because
it is not a food. There is a loophole in the statute that states
that if the EPA decides to remove a product from the market the
EPA must pay the company for all lost sales and must actually purchase
all of the product from the company and retailers. This means that
Hartz Mountain does not have to remove the product on its own and
will not lose.
We could boycott Hartz Mountain but I think most of us in this
notes file do not use their products already.
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| 921.1 | Covered Before | TOXMAN::MECLER | FRANK | Mon Nov 30 1987 07:36 | 17 |
This topic was discussed in an earlier note. There was some testing
done on Blockade prior to marketing but the battery of tests required
to register a pesticide do not include safety testing in the species
in which application is intended. The EPA has required Hartz to
do more extensive testing and to increase the content of the warning
labels.
EPA can revoke registration of a pesticide on the market and there
is currently some legislation under discussion which could void
the EPA having to compensate a manufacturer for existing stock of
a de-registered pesticide.
The saddest part of the whole situation is that neither Hartz nor
the EPA know whether the death and complication rate for Hartz Blockade
is "excessive", that is, beyond that occurring following other
pesticide application. Noone keeps records on adverse effects on
pets.
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| 921.2 | $$$$ | VIDEO::USHER | Mon Nov 30 1987 14:44 | 10 | |
As far as I am concerned just the potential for harm to animals
is enough to pull this spray from the market. My mother used it
on her dog once before all the hazards were made public and luckily
it had no adverse affects. I'm sure that pet owners will not purchase
this product and it will eventually just disappear, but what of
the next new "miracle" product. I'm at the point now where I won't
use a new product until its been out for a long period of time and
it is deemed safe. Who can you trust these days - it all pretty
much infuriates me..... I also still see it on the shelves in some
stores - wheres the responsibilty there? Anything for $
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