EPA Takes Major Actions to Reduce Americansâ?? Risks from Mouse and Rat Poisons Move will better protect children, pets and wildlife WASHINGTON â?? To better protect children, pets and wildlife, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it is moving to ban the sale to residential consumers of the most toxic rat and mouse poisons, as well as most loose bait and pellet products. The agency is also requiring that all newly registered rat and mouse poisons marketed to residential consumers be enclosed in bait stations that render the pesticide inaccessible to children and pets. Wildlife that consume bait
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