Large quantities of anti-flea treatments end up being washed away down the drain and ending up in rivers, where they can harm wildlife.
The flea treatments you give your cat or dog may be poisoning the rivers—and it's getting there via your drains.Flea medicines such as fipronil and imidacloprid are parasiticides that kill off the pesky critters plaguing your pet with itchiness. However, they end up in wastewater in large quantities, according to a new paper in the journal Science of The Total Environment.
In the paper, researchers describe how they tested the levels of these chemicals in the wastewater that comes from bathing pets, washing bedding, and owners washing their hands after applying the anti-flea treatments.'We treated dogs with these chemicals and measured how much came off when dogs were bathed or stroked.
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