Flea & Tick Topical for Dogs
Spot-on · monthly, 4 weight bandsFlea & tickScored October 2026
- Flags
- 22 caution
- Ingredients
- 4all in our library
- Brand grade
- Ctransparency, costs 5 points
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
Save it to your pantry and the pantry page flags it if it turns up in an FDA recall we import.
It adds up, line by line.
Every product starts at 96. Flags, the brand's transparency grade and any recall linked to this product take points away. Nothing else moves the number, and no brand can pay to move it.
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The full methodologyNextStar
Flea & Tick Topical for Dogs
Good, check the flags
Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com
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.
Pesticide actives
Printed as actives: fipronil 9.80%, cyphenothrin 5.20% and (S)-methoprene 8.80%. Labelled for dogs.
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.
Every ingredient, top to bottom.
Listed as printed on the package. Tap any line to see what it is and why it's there.
4 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.
Recall record.
This product
None linked
We link recalls by hand from FDA notices. Only a recall linked to this product counts in its score.
See all pet recallsNextStar, the brand
No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names NextStar.
The brand behind it.
NextStar
Spot-on flea and tick products, made by PetIQ, the maker of Capstar. Graded from the 2 products of theirs in this catalogue, not from an audit of the company.
Not enough to grade: we hold 2 panels of theirs, read from the carton photos on its product pages. Each names the actives with their percentages and gives the rest as one unnamed share. The cat page's text names cyphenothrin, where the cat carton prints etofenprox. The C grade takes 5 points off this product's score.
NextStar brand pageMore NextStar flea & tick
Panel Score 83 out of 100, grade B: Good, check the flags
Flea & Tick Topical for CatsIndependent 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.
What we look forNo corrections on this page yet.
Holding the package and it reads differently? Disputes come straight to us, and any score we change is logged publicly on the corrections page.