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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
A wildlife rescue center in D.C. has found that an increasing number of birds and mammals across the city are consuming, falling ill and dying from rat poison. Rodenticide, which contains ...
SAN FRANCISCO— The makers of d-CON have filed a formal challenge to a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency to limit the sale of rat poison without tamper-resistant packaging to avoid ...
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 ...
Reckitt Benckiser is the parent company of d-CON and is also currently challenging a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency to limit the sale of super-toxic rat poison without ...
Brodifacoum, an anti-coagulant that causes internal hemorrhaging, can be found in products such as d-Con rat poison and is widely available in other forms online. "Any animal or human that ingests ...
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 ...