An EPA review of the safety of Seresto pet collars could take years.than any other such product, failed to report an additional 11,000 incidents to the federal government since 2020, newly released records show.
Bayer, which originally owned Seresto, had been reporting the incidents to the Environmental Protection Agency until 2020, when it sold its entire Animal Health division to Elanco for $7.6 billion. Under federal pesticide law, companies are required to report incidents of harm to the EPA, which oversees pesticides. The agency had received some 75,000 incidents from Bayer by the time of the sale.
Miller's email was provided by the EPA in response to a lawsuit filed by the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity for the release of the records. The organization also“It's strange," Miller wrore. "Elanco sent us incident reports for other products but not for Seresto." Elanco disputed that it did not submit reports prior to March 2, 2021, when the original story ran. On Friday, Elanco spokeswoman Keri McGrath referred to an earlier email from April sent to the Midwest Center, in which the company said it had been sending hard copy reports to the closed EPA offices even after being told by EPA officials to hold them. The reports were returned to the company by the carrier, McGrath said.The next day, Elanco said it was ready to submit the reports for Seresto.