Flea Treatment News @Flea Control Secrets

There has been much speculation as to whether or not fleas are becoming immune to flea treatments on the market.

Just whether or not flea treatment resistence is a reality has not been widely studied. In fact, I blogged about the Bayer Animal Health-funded Flea Susceptibility Monitoring program being the first and only companion animal parasite [...]

Counterfeit flea treatment products are suspected to be contributing to the adverse reactions being reported by pet owners after using flea treatment products.
In the first post in this series I listed the most commonly counterfeited products along with their registration numbers.
But the question on most people’s minds is, Just how do you identify a fake [...]

On August 10, 2009 an extensive series on flea treatment and adverse reactions was posted on ConsumerAffairs.com.
Based on reported incidents involving flea treatment products, ConsumerAffairs.Com contacted three of the leading topical flea and tick product manufacturers to discuss the EPA’s “intensified scrutiny” of these treatments and any complaints they had received from pet owners.
ConsumerAffairs.Com contacted [...]

The 22nd World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP), Calgary, Canada was the location for the announcement of the latest results of a large-scale, international, independent Flea Susceptibility Monitoring (FSM) program.
The data from the ten year study showed that fleas collected from around the globe continue to be highly susceptible to imidacloprid today [...]