Flea Control Information

Flea Control Links

The Environmental Protection Agency website has information about the increase in restrictions on flea control products and how to identify counterfeit Frontline and Advantage products.

The Humane Society has information about controlling fleas and ticks on pets.

The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit organization dedicated to investigative journalism on issues of public concern, cautions against using topical flea control treatments with pyrethroids like permethrin.

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental action group, describes its test of dog flea collars on its blog.

Information about pesticides found in flea control treatments is available through the National Pesticide Information Center. The NPIC can also be contacted to report problems with topical (spot-on) flea products.

Visit the Food and Drug Administration website for information on how to report an adverse reaction to an oral flea treatment.

The NRDC's pet website GreenPaws.org has information concerning problems with pesticides and pests, including links to pet blogs like HartzVictims.org and BioSpotVictims.org.

The environmental website Grist.org suggests some homemade remedies for controlling fleas and other household pests.

There's a flea and tick control products comparison chart at the retail website Drs. Foster and Smith website.

You can find product information about flea control products at their manufacturers' websites:

Advantage

Bio Spot (Farnam)

Capstar (Novartis)

Comfortis

Frontline

K9 Advantix

Program (Novartis)

ProMeris

Revolution

Sentinel (Novartis)

Vectra 3D (Summit VetPharm)