NRDC Files Flea Collar Lawsuit
The Natural Resources Defense Council (New York) on April 23 filed a lawsuit in California against major pet retailers and manufacturers for illegally selling pet products containing a known cancer-causing chemical called propoxur without proper warning labels.
In a new scientific analysis, the nonprofit NRDC found high levels of propoxur and tetrachlorvinphos, another carcinogenic neurotoxin common in household pet products, on pet fur after the use of ordinary flea collars.
The NRDC lawsuit, filed in Alameda County, names 16 retailers and manufacturers, including PetSmart Inc. (Phoenix), Petco (San Diego), and Petstore.com (Garden Grove, Calif.), for failing to comply with California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, known as Proposition 65, which prohibits businesses from knowingly exposing consumers without proper warning to any chemical “known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive harm.”
To read the NRDC report, go to www.nrdc.org/health/poisonsonpets/default.asp. [June 2009 PET AGE]
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