Help STOP Hartz Mountain Industries from continuing to make and sell toxic Flea Products

Hartz makes and sells TOXIC & POISONOUS Flea and Tic Treatment for Dogs and Cats with a active ingredient of a pest killer Fiprinil. WHO Acute Hazard classification of pesticides: Class II, moderately hazardous. Fiprinil attacks the central nervous system to whom applied to.
Below are lab results about Fipronil, as thousands of pets have died year year (including my own) and all reports are going un-noticed.

Please see one of the many pages sarted by pet owners after a pets death:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hartz-Products-Are-Killing-Our-Pets/127006737354810

Acute Toxicity and Tolerance of Fipronil Lab Results that the EPA conciders when allowing for the use in mamals.
LD50 acute, rats, p.o. 97 mg/kg
LD50 acute, dogs, p.o. 640 mg/kg
LD50 acute, chicken, p.o. 11.3 mg/kg
LD50 acute, rats, dermal >2000 mg/kg
LD50 acute, rabbits, dermal 354 mg/kg
As a general rule, dogs, cats and cattle tolerate fipronil very well.
Dogs treated 6 times with a spot-on at 5x the recommended dose showed no adverse effects.
Puppies treated twice with a spot-on at 2x the recommended dose showed no adverse effects.
In a one-year study fipronil was administered daily to dogs in gelatin capsules at 0.2, 2, or 5 mg/kg. At doses of ≥2 mg/kg several neurotoxicity signs were recorded and one animal died. The NOAEL was 0.2 mg/kg/day.

APPARENTLY Severeral Poisionings and a Death is OK for these products to me sold to pet owners...also nowhere did it mention cats

Fipronil can be slightly irritant for the skin and the eyes.
When using sprays or aerosols, excessive inhalation of some solvents (e.g. isopropanol) can cause serious problems in young or weak animals. This is not related to fipronil.
Never use spot-ons for dogs on cats; never use spot-ons for large dogs on small dogs. It happens that some users want to save money buying large tablets or spot-ons for treating smaller dogs (or even cats!) twice or more times. The risk of overdosing is considerable, either due to erroneous calculations or to unskilled manipulation. In addition, dog medicines may sometimes contain other ingredients that are toxic to cats.
Fipronil is not approved for use on livestock in many countries (e.g. US, EU, Australia) but is abundantly used on cattle in other countries (mainly in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, etc.), mainly in pour-ons. Most such products have withholding periods of 3-4 months for meat and are not approved for use on dairy cows. Unfortunately little is known about the target-animal safety of such pour-ons.
Never use on rabbits, particularly on young one, which seem to be particularly sensitive to fipronil.
Never use on chickens and other poultry: they are much more sensitive to fipronil than mammals. However ducks and other aquatic birds tolerate fipronil better.
Unless prescribed by a veterinary doctor, never use on dogs or cats products for livestock that are not explicitly approved for such use. There is a high risk of overdosing or of adverse drug reactions due to ingredients that are not tolerated by pets or are even toxic to them.

Penstiside info found @:
PARASITIPEDIA.net
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