News Scan for Jan 23, 2019 - CIDRAP
News Scan for Jan 23, 2019 CIDRAP
According to a series of tweets made by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, the agency is trying its best to handle food safety ...
B.C.’s rodenticide ban could be having unintended consequences: Pest control industry - Global News
British Columbia's new restrictions on the use of certain rodent poisons may be having an unintended side effect, amid reports of growing rat and mouse populations. As of Jan. 31, B.C. permanently banned the sale and use of a class of poisons known as second-generation anti-coagulants, with an exception for certain sectors deemed "essential services," like food production or health-care facilities. The move is an extension of an 18-month ban first implemented in 2021, which followed advocacy by conservationists who said the rodenticides were killing owls, along with some other raptors and predators that eat rats and mice. 4:58 Looking at long-term and cooperative ways to manage the rat population "We were noticing a lot of animals were being secondarily poisoned by rodenticide...
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