Pet Of The Week

In April 2020, a federal appeals court referred to as the EPA’s refusal to respond to NRDC’s requests “nothing wanting egregious” and informed agency officials to make a decision on whether or not to ban the pesticide inside 90 days. The EPA determined not to ban the pesticide, called tetrachlorvinphos. That pet collar continues to be bought underneath the model name Hartz Ultraguard, Hartz InControl and Longlife. This isn’t the primary time that the EPA has failed to properly regulate flea and tick collars containing pesticides, said Miriam Rotkin-Ellman, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources …