According to a press release on the site of the Government Environmental Protection Agency, EPA announced that it will be prosecuting a ban on the sale of more toxic rodent poisons for residential customers.
The EPA made the announcement Tuesday and believe that the decision was due to the danger mouse and rat poisons can be for the people, especially children, and pets and wild animals. In addition, the Federal agency seeks to include loose, including pellets poisons mouse or rat bait. These types of toxic products are particularly harmful to children because they are placed on the ground and in the corners where it can be picked up by small children or placed in their mouths. The problem with the poison of rodents and children has become a major issue and the American Association of Poison control centers received reports up to 15 000 children who use or are exposed to toxic rodent poisons every year.
Director assistant for the EPA Office of chemical safety and Pollution Prevention Steve Owens spoke of the importance of the prohibition of the most toxic rodent poisons available to residential consumers: "these changes are essential to reduce the thousands of accidental exposures of children that occur each year of the rat and mouse control products and also to protect pets." Action today will help ensure the safety of these poisons of our children and animals.
To better protect consumers, children, pets and wild animals in rodent poisons, in 2008, the EPA required manufacturers to design safer products and gave them until 4 June this year to do so.
Many companies developed protection bait products that housed the loose pellets that could pose otherwise dangerous for children. Although most companies agreed, many were not able to, and the EPA intends to pursue the Elimination of these products from the shelves. The four main companies include Liphatech, Woodstream, spectrum and Reckitt Benckiser Group.
As EPA continues a ban on the most toxic rodenticides available for residential customers, the Agency also reminded residents to designate their Pesticides: controlling rodents information page on the official website of the EPA. The page of the Web site includes information on how to prevent an infestation, to identify an infestation by rodents, the types of mouse and rat poison on the market, the telephone numbers for more information and safety tips for reducing exposure to these poisons, especially in the case of children and pets.
Rachel Bogart provides a thorough analysis of local environmental issues current and new in Chicago. As a student of the suburbs of Chicago, seeking to obtain two degrees of science, applied his knowledge and his passion for the two subjects to gather more public awareness.
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