"Blood-thinning, anticoagulant rodenticides were significantly restricted when a 2024 state law approved after 10 years of legislative wrangling required the California department of pesticide regulation to limit the substances' use unless data showed species collaterally harmed or killed by it had rebounded. A new report from the California fish and wildlife service, also part of the Newsom administration, shows widespread poisonings of dozens of species, including mountain lions, hawks, owls, bears and bobcats."
"The pesticides department proposal allows use of the most toxic rat poison to be used at more than 100,000 new locations, including grocery stores, restaurants, highways, roads, and even parks and wildlife areas. The anticoagulant poisons cause a gruesome death, Evans said, because they slowly kill an animal by effectively causing it to bleed out internally. It sometimes can take days for an animal to die."
California is moving to loosen restrictions on the most toxic anticoagulant rodenticides even as state data show widespread, unintended wildlife poisoning. A 2024 law had significantly limited these blood-thinning poisons unless harmed species rebounded; a new California Fish and Wildlife report finds continued contamination in dozens of species, including mountain lions, hawks, owls, bears, bobcats, bald eagles and endangered California condors. About 83% of tested bald eagles showed rodenticide levels. The Department of Pesticide Regulation proposal would allow use at more than 100,000 additional locations such as grocery stores, restaurants, highways and parks. Anticoagulants cause prolonged internal bleeding and can take days to kill affected animals.
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