EPA
to exterminate some d-CON rat poisons
February 2013. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the
Federal Government's intention to ban the sale of 12 d-CON mouse and rat poison
products.
"Unreasonable risk" to people, pets, and wildlife
EPA's action follows its draft Notice of Intent to Cancel issued in 2011. That notice was based on EPA's 2008 conclusion that certain rat-poison products cause "unreasonable risk" to people, pets, and wildlife under federal pesticide laws. At that time, EPA ordered companies to re-formulate their rat-poison products in protective bait stations and to stop marketing "second generation" anti-coagulants - brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difethialone, and difenacoum -- on the consumer market, instead limiting their sale to large containers from agricultural stores
"Unreasonable risk" to people, pets, and wildlife
EPA's action follows its draft Notice of Intent to Cancel issued in 2011. That notice was based on EPA's 2008 conclusion that certain rat-poison products cause "unreasonable risk" to people, pets, and wildlife under federal pesticide laws. At that time, EPA ordered companies to re-formulate their rat-poison products in protective bait stations and to stop marketing "second generation" anti-coagulants - brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difethialone, and difenacoum -- on the consumer market, instead limiting their sale to large containers from agricultural stores
"American Bird Conservancy commends the EPA for its
painstaking and meticulous evaluation of these dangerous rat-poison products.
We support the common-sense solutions outlined in the cancellation
decision," said Cynthia Palmer, Pesticides Program Manager for American
Bird Conservancy (ABC), one of the nation's premier bird conservation
organizations. ABC has been leading the National Pesticide Reform Coalition in
efforts to rein in the use of these rat poisons, given the devastating impacts
on children, pet dogs and cats, and federally-protected raptors including hawks,
owls, and eagles. The organization has been presenting testimony, conducting
outreach to manufacturers and retailers, and assembling incident reports on
pets and wildlife killed by these poisons.
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