New incident report
Incident Report Number: 2015-0685
Registrant Reference Number: 2015-01
Registrant Name (Full Legal Name no abbreviations): MONSANTO CANADA INC.
Address: 180 KENT STREET, SUITE 810
City: OTTAWA
Prov / State: ONTARIO
Country: CANADA
Postal Code: K1P 0B6
Domestic Animal
Country: UNITED STATES
Prov / State: NEW JERSEY
PMRA Registration No. PMRA Submission No. EPA Registration No. 71995-33
Product Name: Roundup Weed and Grass Killer Ready to Use Plus
Liquid
Unknown
Unknown
Animal's Owner
Cat / Chat
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10
Female
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Unknown
Unknown
Unknown / Inconnu
Unknown / Inconnu
System
Unknown / Inconnu
Unknown
Unknown
Died
Other / Autre
specify Owner uses Mr. Clean for treating the area in the barn and an Exterminator came in to spray area around barn
(eg. description of the frequency and severity of the symptoms
Owner had a barn for feral cats. Within 2-3 weeks owner had 10 random deaths. Cats are fine one day and dead the next. All cats were profoundly anemic. The owner started with 21 cats in the barn, 10 are dead as of this report. Owner uses Mr. Clean products to clean in barn area and has for a long time, and her landscaper puts out Roundup weed and grass killer around the lawn but cats are mainly inside the barn. There are no rodenticides.
Death
Owner stated there were 21 cats and 10 died within hours of each other. There had been an exterminator recently treating with Round up. Mr. Clean is used to to clean up symptoms: weak, lathargic, staggaring and then die. One cat that died was bleeding from the nose profusely. The cats that were seen and treated were anemic with low plateltes. The owner is concerned for malicious poisoning. The owner is concerned for malicious poisoning, or the Round up or Mr. Clean The remaining group that appear healthy have been retested for FELV and are neg. DVM is unsure of their vaccination status but they do not seem to have fleas. Owner wanted DVM to inquire what tests could be run to see if the Mr. Clean or Round up were responsible for the cats getting sick? Neither of the agents would be expected to cause death if used per label. If ingested some GI signs would have been seen. Discussed infectious rule outs like Mycoplasma hemofelis and panleuk. Would want to be sure there is no rodenticides being used where the cats live.