![]() “The reports you referenced, which cover March 2020 through present, were submitted via an electronic method following communications from the EPA,” said spokeswoman Keri McGrath in an email.Ī June 22, 2020, email shows Bayer telling EPA employee Elizabeth Fertich about the returned reports and asked for further instructions. She said the company continued to send them anyway as a precaution, even though they were returned. This misunderstanding was quickly resolved, and the data were submitted by Elanco for Seresto upon request.”īut Elanco, which purchased Seresto from Bayer in August last year, said it was the agency itself which directed the company to suspend filing the reports due to the pandemic.Įlanco spokeswoman Keri McGrath said Bayer had been sending hard copy reports to the EPA, but when the pandemic started, the agency’s offices closed and the reports were returned by the mail carrier. ![]() “Elanco, interpreted this to mean all 6(a)(2) data should be temporarily held for all products, including for collars. “In mid-March (2020), EPA informed registrants of pet spot-on products to hold their submissions for sales and incident data because EPA did not have mail service due to the pandemic,” Labbe said in an email. Elanco said it had been submitting hard copy reports through UPS last year, but the reports were returned by the carrier because the EPA offices were closed.ĮPA spokesman Ken Labbe told the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting and USA TODAY last week that Elanco had misunderstood the agency’s directive and should have been delivering those reports all along. When the EPA did notice in March of this year that it had not received any complaint reports from Elanco – the maker of the product – it reached out to Elanco, which quickly submitted the reports. ![]() (The company continued to submit the reports by mail, but they were returned by the carrier.) The updated story also includes a statement from an EPA spokesman that says Elanco misunderstood the agency's directive.įor nearly a year during the pandemic – as people were acquiring more pets and spending more time with them – the Environmental Protection Agency did not know that pet owners had filed about 11,000 complaints about the safety of the Seresto flea and tick collar. An EPA review of the safety of Seresto pet collars could take years.Įditor's note: This story has been updated with new information that shows Elanco was instructed by an employee at the Environmental Protection Agency to hold its incident reports until the EPA offices, which were closed during the pandemic, reopened. ![]()
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