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The company behind the popular Seresto flea-and-tick collar has filed a lengthy defense of the safety of its product amid calls for federal regulars to ban over concerns of harm and death to the pets who wear it.
Read the most important takeaways from our continuing investigation into the popular flea-and-tick collar for pets.
The maker of a popular flea and tick collar did not report thousands of adverse incidents to federal authorities as required until after an investigation by the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting (Investigate Midwest) and USA TODAY was published.
About 180,000 more Illinois residents are expected to struggle with access to food this year compared to 2019, according to new research. Rural areas in southern parts of the state will likely suffer the most.
As early as 2015, the EPA identified that Seresto "ranked #1 by a wide margin" when it came to incident reports of pet death and harm.
Across the country, fewer people have struggled with reliable access to food because of insufficient income in recent years, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data from 2015 to 2019. But the percentage of single mothers with children who struggled with food access remained steady over those four years, at about 15-16%.
For single fathers and married couples with children, the percentage who were food insecure decreased over the same time period. It dropped significantly for single fathers: from 10% in 2015 to 6.5% in 2019. Women’s income is, on average, less than men’s, and women are more likely to stay at home to care for their children, according to The 19th.
In 2019, about 14% of all U.S. households with children experienced food insecurity. Among them, 5.9% were considered “low food security,” which means parents could not provide adequate, nutritious food for their children at some point in a year because they lacked enough money.
More than a decade ago, nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council petitioned the EPA to ban the use of a pesticide called tetrachlorvinphos in pet products like flea and tick collars. The organization cited studies showing that the chemical, a possible carcinogen, had been linked to brain and nerve damage in children.
The EPA said it is reviewing the findings as part of a larger investigation into PFAS contamination in pesticide products.
The hospital's decades-long reputation for aggressively billing patients has resurfaced anew during the pandemic.
EPA data has linked Seresto flea and tick collars to about 1,700 pet deaths.