By Ahna Brutlag, DVM, MS, DABT, DABVT Associate Director of Veterinary Service, Pet Poison Helpline® New EPA mandates concerning rodenticides were released in 2011, which spurred the manufacturer of d-CON, the largest selling rodenticide in the US, into heated battle with the Agency. In short, this has left the current rodenticide market in flux and…
Breaking news! After over two years of ongoing debate between the EPA and the makers of d-CON mouse poison, the parties have reached an agreement. D-CON will comply with new EPA rodenticide standards and will switch to a different anticoagulant ingredient (diphacinone). The good news here is that this anticoagulant has a readily available antidote…
By Jo Marshall Certified Veterinary Technician at Pet Poison Helpline® I took a call from a concerned puppy owner today regarding her Labrador puppy, Mya. The puppy had gone on a short field trip to visit the neighbors. As the owner approached the puppy, little Mya had her face buried deep a in a bucket…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting horse owners and veterinarians that two lots of compounded combination drug products containing pyrimethamine and toltrazuril, used to treat the neurologic disease Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM), have been associated with adverse events in ten horses. The products were compounded by Wickliffe Pharmacy of Lexington, Ky. One lot…
By: Pamela Huyck Certified Veterinary Technician at Pet Poison Helpline® Many of our callers are referred to us by their regular veterinarians and do not understand why their regular vets cannot answer their question(s). Toxicology is a specialized field and there is a very long list of things dogs (and occasionally cats) have been known…
