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Front of the packagePump spray · 16 fl oz
Hartz UltraGuard Plus Flea & Tick Spray for Dogs, front of the package
Turn it over: every ingredient is below
HartzBrand transparency C

UltraGuard Plus Flea & Tick Spray for Dogs

Pump spray · 16 fl ozFlea & tickScored October 2026

Panel Score 83 out of 100, grade B: Good, check the flags
Flags
22 caution
Ingredients
3all in our library
Brand grade
Ctransparency, costs 5 points
Recalls
0linked to this product
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Hartz
UltraGuard Plus Flea & Tick Spray for Dogs

Starting point96
Brand transparency · C-5
Documented recall · none0
Panel Score83 B

Good, check the flags

Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com

Flags-8 points in all

2 flagged ingredients.

Avoid first. Each flag costs points in the score above; where a flag has an entry behind it, it links to the evidence.

Caution-4

Pesticide actives

Printed as actives: tetrachlorvinphos 1.08% and (S)-Methoprene 0.07%. Labelled for dogs.

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Caution-4

Undisclosed material

The label totals everything besides the actives as one share without naming it, so there is nothing to look up; the flag is about the missing names, not a known hazard.

IngredientsAs published by the brand · 3 lines

Every ingredient, top to bottom.

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3 ingredients. All of them carry this product's 2 flags and are marked below.

Checked against the brand's own page on Oct 17, 2026. A package on the shelf can be older or newer than that page; trust the one in your hand.

RecallsFrom FDA notices

Recall record.

This product

None linked

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Hartz, the brand

No FDA recalls on file

None of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Hartz.

Brand3 Hartz products scored

The brand behind it.

CTransparency

Hartz

Flea and tick collars, sprays and shampoos. Graded from the 3 products of theirs in this catalogue, not from an audit of the company.

Two of the 3 products we hold name their actives and give the rest as one unnamed share; the minimum-risk shampoo names every ingredient. All three panels were read from label photos on its product pages, which print no ingredient statement in text. The C grade takes 5 points off this product's score.

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Independent testing & contaminants

No independent testing on file.

Third-party lab findings for things that never appear on an ingredient label. This is separate from the score above and does not change it.

We haven't found published third-party lab results (PFAS, heavy metals, phthalates) for this product. That is not a clean bill of health, just an absence of data.

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