At a time when many are looking for help on raging inflation and who to blame for record-high gas prices, oversight Democrats are turning to pet collars, drawing fire from frustrated Republicans.
At a time when many are looking for help on raging inflation and who to blame for record-high gas prices, oversight Democrats are turning to pet collars, drawing fire from frustrated Republicans.
The House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy will hold a hearing on Wednesday to investigate the Seresto flea collar, which has been linked to thousands of pet deaths.
The committee will hear testimony from Nathan Donley, environmental health science director at the Center for Biological Diversity. Donley reviewed thousands of pages of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act that revealed the Environmental Protection Agency had received nearly 100,000 complaints about harms to pets, as well as to children, but failed to take any action.
Among the issues the committee will explore are why the product was approved in the United States but rejected by Canadian regulators and why the complaints to the EPA’s pesticide incident reporting system have not triggered any substantive action. It will also assess the agency’s review and approval process for all dangerous pesticides.