Certain rat poisons to be banned

[The Straight Story]

Certain rat poisons to be banned



Many common rat and mouse poisons soon will disappear from store shelves.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is banning 20 mouse- and rat-killing products as part of an effort to protect children from exposure to toxic chemicals.

The products include those with the most toxic chemicals and those sold as baits or pellets without protective stations that keep the poison out of reach of small children and pets.

Safer products are widely available, effective and affordable, according to an EPA statement.

The bans stems from a 2008 decision by the Bush administration to identify ways to protect children, pets and wildlife from harmful chemicals in rodent control products.

http://www.pe.com/local-news/topics/topics-environment-headlines/20111107-safety-certain-rat-poisons-to-be-banned.ece

list is here:
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/mice-and-rats/cancellation-process.html#cancellation

D-CON READY MIXED KILLS RATS & MICE
D-CON MOUSE PRUFE KILLS MICE
D-CON PELLETS KILLS RATS & MICE
D-CON MOUSE PRUFE II
D-CON PELLETS GENERATION II
D-CON BAIT PELLETS II
D-CON READY MIXED GENERATION II
D-CON MOUSE-PRUFE III
D-CON BAIT PELLETS III
D-CON II READY MIX BAITBITS III
D-CON BAIT PACKS III
GENERATION MEAL BAIT PACKS
DIFETHIALONE BAIT STATION
DIFETHIALONE 6G PASTE PL PKS
RID-A-RAT RAT & MOUSE KILLER
HOT SHOT SUDDEN DEATH BRAND MOUSE KILLER
HOT SHOT SUDDEN DEATH BRAND RAT KILLER 1
HOT SHOT SUDDEN DEATH BRAND RAT & MOUSE KILLER
HOT SHOT SUDDEN DEATH BRAND MOUSE KILLER BAIT STATION

[FarCenter]

1. This leaves few alternatives available for rats

Another stupid government regulation.

New, More Protective Rodenticide Bait Station Products
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/mice-and-rats/rodent-bait-station.html

[CreekDog]

3. how do you know it's stupid? what if they're dangerous to children and other humans?

still stupid?

:wtf:

[FarCenter]

5. Of course they are dangerous; they are rat "poisons"

Use them with care.

[CreekDog]

6. so you don't know a thing about the chemicals you're talking about

well at least everybody knows that now.

[FarCenter]

7. The new approved ones are poisons

Diphacinone is highly toxic to humans and other mammals by inhalation, dermal absorption, and ingestion (4). It causes internal hemorrhaging that can lead to death. It acts by inhibiting enzymes involved in blood clotting (2). Animals given lethal doses exhibited labored breathing, muscular weakness, excitability, fluid in the lungs, and irregular heartbeats. Other signs of poisoning include spitting of blood, bloody urine or stools, internal hemorrhaging, and widespread bruising or bleeding into the joints. When a lethal dose does not cause immediate death, then death tends to be delayed and due to massive hemorrhage (4).
Diphacinone does not irritate the skin and it is not a skin sensitizer (2). It is a mild eye irritant.

The amount of a chemical that is lethal to one-half (50%) of experimental animals fed the material is referred to as its acute oral lethal dose fifty, or LD50. The oral LD50 for technical diphacinone in rats is 0.3 to 7 mg/kg, 3.0 to 7.5 mg/kg in dogs, 14.7 mg/kg in cats, 150 mg/kg in pigs, 50 to 300 mg/kg in mice, and 35 mg/kg in rabbits (2, 3, 4). The dermal LD50 in rats is 200 mg/kg (4), and in rabbits is greater than 3.6 mg/kg. The lethal concentration fifty, or LC50, is that concentration of a chemical in air or water that kills half of the experimental animals exposed to it for a set time period. The 4-hr inhalation LC50 in rats is 2 mg/m3 (4, 6).

http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/dienochlor-glyphosate/diphacinone-ext.html

[CreekDog]

8. nice Googling and pasting.

:shrug:

[meow2u3]

4. Cat and dog adoptions will probably be on the rise

Natural pesticides you can become attached to are the best solution. The only potential problem would be overbreeding and/or inbreeding, especially of terriers.

[jtuck004]

2. Not my warfarin, I hope.

:)