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3. Contact via email, phone or fax the following people at the FDA and request that they respond to our meeting request. Don’t be shy – feel free to blow up their fax machines. Aundria Arlandson and I have attempted to get a meeting with the FDA, who regulates a small amount of these products, for the past several months, emailing daily after the first few requests went unanswered. This tactic works and was able to get our foot in the door with the EPA our first year in DC. We scored that meeting in 72 hours because of your efforts. Here’s the contact info:

Commissioner Hamburg,

 margaret.hamburg@fda.hhs.gov

phone 888-463-6332

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Dr. Bernadette Dunham, Director of Veterinary Medicine

phone 240.276.9300

askdvm@fda.hhs.gov

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Executive Secretary, Jennifer M. Cannistra

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Fax……….: 202-205-2135

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Deputy Executive Secretary, Barbara J. Holland

Phone…….: 202-690-5627

Fax……….: 202-205-2135

E-mail…….: Barbara.holland@hhs.gov

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Boehringer Ingelheim will pay more than $68,000 for mishandling mercury waste in St. Joseph.

The company will also build a $300,000 state-of-the-art hazardous waste storage facility as part of its agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

According to the EPA, inspectors found several violations at the company’s St. Joseph facilities in 2010.

The violations include storing mercury without a permit, sending mercury waste to a non-authorized facility and transporting hazardous waste without a license.

Boehringer uses mercury as part of its vaccine production process.

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As we ramp up for our annual meeting with the EPA to discuss harmful flea and tick products, this one has me a bit floored. How much of the profit made on the backs of our dogs was this fine? Long and short it shows my theory, based on years of research, that our household pets have become the dumping ground for many pesticides, including some banned by the EPA for household use.

Southwest Missouri Pet Supply Dealer to Pay $56,632 Penalty for Re-Labeling, Selling Misbranded Cattle and Hog Insecticide

A southwest Missouri pet supply dealer has agreed to pay a $56,632 civil penalty to the United States to settle allegations that it violated the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) by repackaging, relabeling and selling an insecticide meant for use on cattle and hogs as a flea and tick treatment for dogs.

Hunte Kennel Systems and Animal Care, Inc., of Goodman, Mo., will pay the civil penalty under terms of an administrative consent agreement filed today by EPA Region 7 in Kansas City, Kan.

The allegations stem from findings made by the Missouri Department of Agriculture during inspections of the company’s facilities in Goodman and Buffalo, Mo. The inspections found that the company had bottled the pesticide Prolate/Lintox-HD into different packaging and sold it as another pesticide, Paramite.

During the inspections, the company was ordered to immediately stop selling the repackaged pesticide. Prolate/Lintox-HD is formulated for use in the control of flies, lice, mange and ticks on cattle, and for the control of lice and mange on swine. Paramite is no longer manufactured as a flea and tick treatment for dogs.

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