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• Position: STATELINE - Ban on rodenticides in California - Brief article

Starting in July, California stores must pull highly lethal rat poison off the shelves. The state ban on rodenticides, the first in the nation, is an effort to protect wildlife, pets and children from inadvertently ingesting it. Environmental groups, which have long lobbied for the ban, say rodenticides have killed at least 300 animals other than rats in California in the last two decades. Rodents that eat it die of internal bleeding. The toxin typically stays in...