![]() Commercial exterminators may still employ the anticoagulant rodenticides discussed here. Bromethalin based rat poisons have since captured the residential market. The traditional d-CON products have not been manufactured since December 2014 and have not been distributed since March 15, 2015. This means that second generation rat poisons (which kill rats in one feeding) will be banned from residential use and that rat poisons for residential use must be secured within bait stations (not in open trays). At last, Reckitt Benckiser has aggreed to comply with the EPA directives. ![]() The EPA has been at odds with Reckitt Benckiser (the makers of d-CON) since 1999 when they began seriously scrutinizing the risks of rat poison products to pets, children, and wildlife.
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