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Packages of d-CON on store shelves.
(Photo used with permission)
Article: Victory June 12, 2014

A Bad Month for Poisons

Some of the gravest poisoning threats to children, pets and wildlife will disappear because of agreements reached by Earthjustice.
An owl is treated for poisoning from second-generation anticoagulants. d-Con (left) poisons predators that eat the weakened rodents.
(Right photo by Alison Hermance / Courtesy of WildCare)
Press Release: Victory May 30, 2014

d-CON Agrees to Pull Super-Toxic Rat Poisons From Stores

d-CON products.
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Article: Victory May 30, 2014

Victory: d-Con To Be Killed Off

The rodent killer d-CON—which also kills pets and poisons children—will cease being made by year's end under an agreement reached with the EPA.
document May 28, 2014

Reckitt Benckiser Memo MOI

A gray fox suffering from rodenticide poisoning.
(Photo courtesy of Melanie Piazza / Wildcare)
Press Release May 28, 2014

Legal Action Taken to Reduce Wildlife Poisoning

Groups intervene in lawsuit by d-CON producers fighting California's controls on super-toxic rat poisons
Press Release March 31, 2014

d-CON Producer Sues California to Fight Controls on Super-toxic Rat Poisons

New rodenticide limits would protect wildlife and pets from poisoning
A gray fox suffering from rodenticide poisoning.
(Photo courtesy of Melanie Piazza / Wildcare)
feature June 18, 2013

d-CON: Taking Aim at a Wildlife Killer

d-CON kills rats and mice—and owls, foxes, bobcats, coyotes, and eagles. It also poisons 60,000 kids every year. Earthjustice is working to inform the public about this poison.
document April 29, 2013

Rodenticide Motion to Intervene

Press Release April 29, 2013

Wildlife Conservation Groups Join Fight to Ban d-CON Rat Poisons

Manufacturer rejected safeguards against accidental poisonings
document March 7, 2013

Rodenticide Manufacturer Challenge

Press Release March 7, 2013

Rat Poison Manufacturer Challenges EPA Ban of d-CON Product

Reckitt Benckiser wants to keep selling product despite risks to children and wildlife
Article January 31, 2013

EPA Moves To Ban Dangerous Rat Poison

Article December 18, 2012

Poisoning The Well

document December 11, 2012

Notice to CA DPR on Second Generation Anticoagulants

Notice opposing CA DPR’s proposed decision to renew second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides
Press Release December 11, 2012

California Urged to Ban Super-toxic Rat Poison

Rodent-killing poisons also kill foxes, hawks, other wildlife