Pet collars will no longer contain toxic pesticide carbaryl, effective 2010

October 21, 2009

Posted by Jennifer Sass in Health and the Environment

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bee, carbamate, carbaryl, flea, pesticide, petcollar, petition, pets, poison, pollinator, ticks, toxic, toxicchemicals

Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the use of carbaryl, a highly toxic pesticide, in pet collars will be withdrawn!  In 2005  NRDC  filed a petition to cancel carbaryl. We asked that EPA cancel uses of carbaryl in pet flea collars...continued→

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