{"id":2266,"date":"2009-05-12T23:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2009-05-12T23:02:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T16:02:40","slug":"topical-flea-and-tick-products-come-under-epa-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/topical-flea-and-tick-products-come-under-epa-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Topical flea and tick products come under EPA scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A recent spike in the number of adverse reactions to spot-on flea and tick products reported in 2008 prompted the Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s April 16 announcement that it is stepping up its evaluation of these products.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Adverse reactions reported from the spot-on products range from mild effects, such as skin irritation, to more serious effects, such as seizures, and, in some cases, death. More than 44,000 potential incidents associated with registered spot-on products were reported to the EPA in 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avma.org\/onlnews\/javma\/may09\/090515b.asp\">Click here<\/a> for the rest of the story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent spike in the number of adverse reactions to spot-on flea and tick products reported in 2008 prompted the Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s April 16 announcement that it is stepping up its evaluation of these products. Adverse reactions reported from the spot-on products range from mild effects, such as skin irritation, to more serious effects, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}