New incident report
Incident Report Number: 2013-1670
Registrant Reference Number: 1107261
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: FLORIDA
Unknown
PMRA Registration No. PMRA Submission No. EPA Registration No. 4822-538
Product Name: Raid Outdoor Ant Spikes
Bait
Unknown
Unknown
Animal's Owner
Dog / Chien
Pit Bull Terrier
1
Female
2
30
kg
Oral
Unknown / Inconnu
Unknown / Inconnu
System
Persisted until death
No
Unknown
Died
Accidental ingestion/Ingestion accident.
(eg. description of the frequency and severity of the symptoms
1/19/2013 Caller's dog chewed on a spike some time in the past several hours prior to the call. No plastic appears to be missing. The dog was reported to have labored breathing heavy and was listless, unable to get up. Follow-up completed on 1/21/2013. Dog was reported to have died in the car on the way to the veterinary hospital. The dog was never evaluated by the 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. The observed symptoms are not consistent with the toxicity profile of this product. The potential dose of abamectin this 30 kg dog could have received from a single 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 be the cause of this dogs symptoms. The dose of abamectin used within the ant bait station is significantly smaller than the dose of ivermectin, a similar compound to abamectin, used therapeutically by veterinarians to treat heartworm in dogs. Typically, when an entire bait station is ingested by a dog including the plastic housing, the primarily symptoms reported are vomiting and diarrhea. Such gastrointestinal symptoms were not reported in this case.