Some of the gravest poisoning threats to children, pets and wildlife will disappear because of agreements reached by Earthjustice.

Following years of pressure from conservation, public-health and animal-rights groups, the maker of the rat poison d-CON agreed today to stop producing its super-toxic rat poisons and pull the products from store shelves by early next year. Reckitt Benckiser, the parent company of d-CON, had been challenging a decision by the EPA to limit the…

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.

Groups intervene in lawsuit by d-CON producers fighting California’s controls on super-toxic rat poisons

New rodenticide limits would protect wildlife and pets from poisoning

California has approved a statewide ban on direct-to-consumer sale of some of the most dangerous rat poisons but loopholes still leave many wildlife species at risk. The ban approved Tuesday, which will go into effect July 1, prohibits the sale of certain products by d-CON, the only second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide sold directly to the general…

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.

A group of rodenticides that did not comply with basic safety measures were posing a significant threat to bobcats, foxes, owls and other animals that are apt to eat poisoned rats or mice. The rodenticides at issue, known as “second-generation anticoagulants” and marketed by British-based multinational conglomerate Reckitt Benckiser LLC, under the brand name “d-CON,”…

Manufacturer rejected safeguards against accidental poisonings

Reckitt Benckiser wants to keep selling product despite risks to children and wildlife

There’s a dangerous type of mouse and rat poison on the market that when eaten by the rodents, causes them to bleed to death internally. Problems arise when the poison sometimes finds its way into the hands of kids or pets or moves up the food chain from rats and mice to foxes, bobcats, owls…

She was one of 26 mountain lions being studied by National Park Service biologists. Collared back in August along with her brother, Puma-25 had been dead for about a week before hikers found her on an October Sunday in Point Mugu State Park, located in the Santa Monica Mountains. Her death, though, didn’t come at…

Notice opposing CA DPR’s proposed decision to renew second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides

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