New incident report
Incident Report Number: 2010-4067
Registrant Reference Number: 648245
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: UNITED STATES
Prov / State: OHIO
PMRA Registration No. PMRA Submission No. EPA Registration No. 4822-529
Product Name: Raid Ant Baits III USA (non-specific))
Bait
Yes
Unknown
Site: Res. - In Home / Rés. - à l'int. maison
Animal's Owner
Dog / Chien
Australian Shepherd (Aussie)
1
Male
Unknown
35.00
lbs
Oral
<=15 min / <=15 min
Unknown / Inconnu
System
Persisted until death
Unknown
No
Died
Accidental ingestion/Ingestion accident.
(eg. description of the frequency and severity of the symptoms
6/17/2010 A consumer email was forwarded for documentation. The email reports that the consumer placed the baits out, and his dog ingested one of the baits the following morning. The dog was asymptomatic at the time. The consumer replied the following day to report that the dog had died. Additional information from the consumer stated that the dog was "old" and had other "unspecified medical issues" that were more likely the cause of the dog's death. It is not known if the dog was evaluated by a veterinarian.
Death
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. Raid Ant Bait stations containing 0.01% abamectin have a very wide margin of safety such that no specific poisoning effects are expected from the ingestion of the contents of a single bait station by a dog. For such an exposure to be lethal is inconceivable and lacks and biological plausibility.