Under the agreement, Reckitt Benckiser will begin to phase out production of 12 d-CON rat and mouse poison products next month and will stop production by year-end. The company will cease ...

United Kingdom-based Reckitt Benckiser, a consumer products company that makes d-Con, a common poison to kill mice and rats, inked an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that ...

The manufacturers of one of the most common brands of rat and mice poison, d-Con, have sued state regulators just one week after California banned the pesticide and blamed it for killing wildlife.

After years of challenges to federal environmental officials, the maker of d-Con rat traps has agreed to discontinue a consumer line of poison-laced baits that have accidentally harmed children ...

U.K.-based Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC, the maker of d-Con, struck a truce with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a plan to ban sales of the rat poison, which has been linked to ...

The manufacturer of d-CON, a widely sold and popular brand of rat poison, is taking the rare step of challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to prohibit the over-the-counter ...

The mouse poison in question was reportedly the d-Con brand; d-Con’s active ingredient is brodifacoum. This substance is classified as a superwarfarin, a family of potent, long-acting ...

Those include familiar brand names such as d-Con, Hot Shot and Talon ... befalls other animals that encounter the poison, whether they eat the rat or get exposed through some other means ...

Brodifacoum is among a class of rodenticides called "superwarfarins," and used to be the active ingredient in the rat bait "D-Con." The toxic chemical is a long-acting vitamin K oxidoreductase ...