New incident report
Incident Report Number: 2010-3199
Registrant Reference Number: PROSAR Case #1-22800291
Registrant Name (Full Legal Name no abbreviations): Syngenta Crop Protection Canada, Inc.
Address: 140 Research Lane, Research Park
City: Guelph
Prov / State: Ontario
Country: Canada
Postal Code: N1G4Z3
Domestic Animal
Country: UNITED STATES
Prov / State: ALABAMA
PMRA Registration No. PMRA Submission No. EPA Registration No. Unknown
Product Name: Avicta Complete Cotton
Other (specify)
Treated cotton seedNo
Unknown
Other
Cow / Vache
Unknown
14
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown / Inconnu
Unknown / Inconnu
System
Persisted until death
No
No
Died
Other / Autre
specify No witnessed ingestion. One bag of treated seed fell off truck while driving through cattle pasture; product may have been ingested.
(eg. description of the frequency and severity of the symptoms
1-22800291: The registrant was alerted on 4/27/10 to the death of 14 head of cattle after the cattle were possibly exposed to cotton seed treated with a mix of the active ingredients Abamectin, Thiamethoxam, Azoxystrobin, Fludioxonil, and Mefenoxam. The cattle farmer was driving through a cattle pasture to go plant cotton on 4/25/10. Apparently some cotton seed treated with Avicta Complete Cotton fell off the truck (one bag was reported missing) sometime that day. The following day (4/26/10), 5 head of cattle were reported dead. By 4/27/10, an additional 9 head of cattle were reported dead and several others were staggering. No further information is available.
Death
This cotton seed treatment product is not registered in Canada.
Other
Cow / Vache
Unknown
1
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown / Inconnu
Unknown / Inconnu
System
Unknown / Inconnu
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown/Inconnu
Other / Autre
specify No witnessed ingestion. One bag of treated seed fell off truck while driving through cattle pasture; product may have been ingested.
(eg. description of the frequency and severity of the symptoms
1-22800291: The registrant was alerted on 4/27/10 to the death of 14 head of cattle after the cattle were possibly exposed to cotton seed treated with a mix of the active ingredients Abamectin, Thiamethoxam, Azoxystrobin, Fludioxonil, and Mefenoxam. The cattle farmer was driving through a cattle pasture to go plant cotton on 4/25/10. Apparently some cotton seed treated with Avicta Complete Cotton fell off the truck (one bag was reported missing) sometime that day. The following day (4/26/10), 5 head of cattle were reported dead. By 4/27/10, an additional 9 head of cattle were reported dead and several others were staggering. No further information is available.
Moderate