California Farm Wins Equitrol Lawsuit

June 2004

California Farm Wins Equitrol Lawsuit

A jury awards $1+million to a breeding farm claiming damages from feeding their horses a feed-through fly-control product.

You need to fully understand what’s in the products you feed your horse.

In June 2000, we expressed concerns about using feed-through fly-control products containing Rabon, citing problems on a Texas ranch that appeared to be linked to organophosphate (OP) poisoning. Rabon, which is the brand name for tetrachlorvinphos, is the active ingredient in equine feed-through fly-control supplements and an organophosphate. The Texas horses had been receiving a Rabon-containing product. The biochemical evidence of OP poisoning—depressed levels of the cholinesterase enzymes in the blood—gradually returned to normal after the Rabon supplement was stopped. …
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