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What's the Epa's Role in Regulating Flea Collars?
There's no trigger for these types of concerns, but what is the evaluation process like at the e p a? And how does that compare to, say, the fda when they're looking at products for public use? The typical study requirement for bringing a flea collar or a, you know, flea and tick product on the market is to do a study on about a dozen dogs in a laboratory. We're rarely talking about more than a couple dozen animals at most, that these products are being tested on.
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