New incident report
Incident Report Number: 2008-5547
Registrant Reference Number: 298760
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
Domestic Animal
Country: CANADA
Prov / State: BRITISH COLUMBIA
Unknown
PMRA Registration No. 28347 PMRA Submission No. EPA Registration No. 4822-538
Product Name: Raid Outdoor Ant Spikes - Canada
Yes
Unknown
Site: Res. - Out Home / Rés - à l'ext.maison
Animal's Owner
Dog / Chien
Unknown
1
Female
4
39.00
lbs
Oral
Unknown / Inconnu
Unknown / Inconnu
System
Unknown / Inconnu
Yes
No
Unknown/Inconnu
Other / Autre
specify Chewed up ant bait station found outside, but dog never actually witnessed to be the animal that chewed up this bait station.
(eg. description of the frequency and severity of the symptoms
3/17/2008 1:55:57 PM Consumer reports that her dog has been suffering from a peculiar illness over the past 3 weeks and has been in and out of the vet clinic. The dog has been suffering from edema of the neck and legs. She has also been suffering from unspecified respiratory issues. The DVM suspects she is suffering from some type of vasculitis. The consumer recently found a chewed up ant bait station in her yard, so she suspects her dog could have chewed on this station. She also acknowledges that some other animal could have potentially chewed on this spike.
Moderate
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 potential dose of abamectin this dog could have received from a single ant bait station is well below any dose of this compound that could potentially lead to illness in a dog this size and is unlikely to have been the cause of this dog's death. The dose of abamectin used within the ant bait station is significant smaller than the dose of ivermectin, a similar compound to abamectin, used therapeutically by veterinarians to treat heartworm in dogs.