New incident report
Incident Report Number: 2008-0835
Registrant Reference Number: 277283
Registrant Name (Full Legal Name no abbreviations): S.C. Johnson and Son, Limited
Address: 1 Webster Street
City: Brantford
Prov / State: ON
Country: Canada
Postal Code: N3T 5R1
Human
Country: UNITED STATES
Prov / State: ARKANSAS
Unknown
PMRA Registration No. PMRA Submission No. EPA Registration No.
Product Name: Raid Flying Insect Killer Formula 6 Outdoor Fresh Scent 18 oz.
Liquid
Yes
Unknown
Site: Personal use / Usage personnel
No
Medical Professional
Sex: Female
Age: >19 <=64 yrs / >19 <=64 ans
System
>24 hrs <=3 days / >24 h <=3 jours
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Non-occupational
Application
None
Skin
Unknown / Inconnu
Unknown / Inconnu
1/8/2008Email from a physician treating a patient that intentionally exposed self to product. Physician is requesting product ingredients.Call was placed to physician to provide information. Unable to reach physician, and a an email reply was sent to the physician.1/9/2008Physician calling, and reports that patient has been regularly spraying self with product to keep flies off. The patient has had two prior admissions for metabolic acidosis, and the cause has not been determined. Lactates were normal during each admission. Patient was in respiratory failure on the most recent admission. The patient was intubated and treated with sodium bicarbonate, and recovered. Patient has a medical history of Type II Diabetes Mellitus.1/23/2008Call back attempted to hospital, and physician did not answer the page. An email was sent to physician requesting any additional information regarding the cause of patient's symptoms.
Major
The information contained in this report is based on self-reported statements provided to the registrant during telephone Interview(s). These self-reported descriptions of an incident have not been independently verified to be factually correct or complete descriptions of the incident. For that reason, information contained in this report does not and can not form the basis for a determination of whether the reported clinical effects are causally related to exposure to the product identified in the telephone interviews. The signs and symptoms reported in this case are not consistent with the known toxicology of the material involved at the concentrations used in this spray, even following the type of gross misuse us of the product by the patient. The weight of medical and scientific evidence does not support a correlation between this patient's illness and the type of skin exposure as reported in this case. Ready-to-use pyrethroid based house insect sprays such as this product have a very wide margin of safety, such that even direct skin contact with spray would not be expected to cause any complications other than possibly localized skin irritation. It is important to note that many over-the-counter products used to treat human head lice typically contain pyrethroid class insecticides including permethrin at concentrations/potencies higher than that used in this spray product.