Toxicological trivia on 20/08/09: Amitraz is:
a) Pharmaceutical product used as acaricide;
b) Herbicide;
c) Rat killer.

Answer: a. It is a pharmaceutical product that can cause poisoning in humans. It is used as a miticide and insecticide in the treatment of generalized demodicosis in dogs and to control mites in cattle and sheep. More information on amitraz. Read more in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitraz & Amitraz profile from EXTOXNET, maintained by Cornell University. More information in Spanish About amitraz.