Despite statewide restrictions on the deadly poisons, new research shows they’re still infiltrating the food web.

Many rat poisons contain anticoagulants, also known as blood thinners. These are responsible for more than half of all of rat poison-related calls to the Poison Control Center each year.

The most commonly used poisons are called anticoagulant rodenticides ... When wild animals consume rat poison – typically, by eating a poisoned rat – the effects may include internal bleeding ...

The California Ecosystems Protection Act of 2023, or Assembly Bill 1322, will place a moratorium on the first-generation anticoagulant rodenticide diphacinone, a toxic rat poison still on the market ...

falling ill and dying from rat poison. Rodenticide, which contains anticoagulants and causes rats to bleed to death, can easily be purchased online, and experts say its use has increased and ...

Massachusetts lawmakers want to restrict a type of rat poison that is particularly dangerous to birds, pets and wildlife.

Assembly Bill 2552 now awaits state Senate approval. Authored by Assemblymember Laura Friedman, A.B. 2552 would expand the existing rat poison moratorium to include first-generation anticoagulant ...

BOSTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — Massachusetts lawmakers want to restrict a type of rat poison that is ... it ingested a type of rat poison known as an anticoagulant rodenticide.