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    Rodenticides are chemicals made and sold for the purpose of killing rodents. While commonly referred to as "rat poison", rodenticides are also used to...
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    The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) is a United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation...
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  • flavoring. Corn gluten meal can be used as the active ingredient in rodenticides. The patent filing indicates that corn gluten meal can cause dehydration...
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    medications in the prevention of thrombosis, and in pest control, as rodenticides. These drugs deplete the active form of the vitamin by inhibiting the...
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    Bromethalin (category Rodenticides)
    Bromethalin is a neurotoxic rodenticide that damages the central nervous system. Bromethalin was discovered in the early 1980s through an approach to...
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    Brodifacoum (category Anticoagulant rodenticides)
    of the world's most widely used pesticides. It is typically used as a rodenticide, but is also used to control larger pests such as possums. Brodifacoum...
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    humans, and for animals that have consumed either the rodenticide or rats poisoned by the rodenticide, treatment is prolonged administration of large amounts...
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  • Committee. 2020-09-14. Retrieved 2020-11-22. "Home - Rodenticide Resistance Action Committee". RRAC - Rodenticide Resistance Action Committee. 2019-09-13. Retrieved...
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    Sodium fluoroacetate (category Rodenticides)
    salt (sodium chloride) and is used as a rodenticide. The effectiveness of sodium fluoroacetate as a rodenticide was reported in 1942. The name "1080" refers...
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    of anticoagulent rodenticides such as warfarin has produced almost equally widespread resistance to vitamin K antagonist rodenticides around the world...
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    Difethialone (category Rodenticides)
    Difethialone is an anticoagulant used as a rodenticide. It is considered a second generation agent. In May 2008, the EPA added restrictions on the sale...
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    Cholecalciferol (category Rodenticides)
    of cholecalciferol in rodenticides may still pose a significant hazard to other animals, such as dogs and cats, when rodenticide bait or other forms of...
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    kill birds. Commonly used avicides include strychnine (also used as rodenticide and predacide), DRC-1339 (3-chloro-4-methylaniline hydrochloride, Starlicide)...
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  • Powdered corn cob (PCC) is a rodenticide, marketed as a natural and environmentally-friendly alternative to anticoagulant types. The preparation was approved...
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    Bromadiolone (category Anticoagulant rodenticides)
    Bromadiolone is a potent anticoagulant rodenticide. It is a second-generation 4-hydroxycoumarin derivative and vitamin K antagonist, often called a "super-warfarin"...
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    (EPA) announced a decision to remove second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides from store shelves, leaving the products available for purchase only...
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    Aluminium phosphide (category Rodenticides)
    dangerous pyrophoric compound, igniting easily in air. AlP is used as a rodenticide, insecticide, and fumigant for stored cereal grains. It is used to kill...
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    classified by target organism (e.g., herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, and pediculicides – see table), Biopesticides according to the EPA include...
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    urban areas. In bobcats using urban habitats in California, the use of rodenticides has been linked to both secondary poisoning by consuming poisoned rats...
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    4-Hydroxycoumarins (category Rodenticides)
    or second-generation anticoagulants in this class, were developed as rodenticides for rodents that have developed warfarin resistance. The second generation...
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    Zinc phosphide (category Rodenticides)
    although commercial samples are often dark or even black. It is used as a rodenticide. Zn3P2 is a II-V semiconductor with a direct band gap of 1.5 eV and may...
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    that fishers in California were exposed to and killed by anticoagulant rodenticides associated with marijuana cultivation. In this study, 79% of fishers...
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  • of chemical pesticide used to kill parasitic nematodes (roundworms) Rodenticide – a category of pest control chemicals intended to kill rodents Spermicide...
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    indicating its link with coumarin. Warfarin was first registered for use as a rodenticide in the US in 1948, and was immediately popular. Although warfarin was...
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    Difenacoum (category Anticoagulant rodenticides)
    antagonist type. It has anticoagulant effects and is used commercially as a rodenticide. It was first introduced in 1976 and first registered in the USA in 2007...
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    regulating pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA). Studies must...
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    Protection Agency notes in its Proposed Risk Mitigation Decision for Nine Rodenticides that "without habitat modification to make areas less attractive to commensal...
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    licensing for use. Zinc phosphide is a common ingredient in rat poison or rodenticide. Zinc phosphide is a combination of phosphorus and zinc. If ingested...
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  • Hexamethylenetetramine (hexamine) Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine (TETS), a rodenticide banned in most countries Tetramine is also used as a synonym for the...
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    recessive genetic trait. The volatile compound has been used as inhalation rodenticide and human poison, as well as for killing whales. Cyanide ions interfere...
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