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Anticoagulant rodenticides kill animals who unknowingly consume them by prohibiting their blood from clotting and causing horrific suffering as they bleed internally to death. These poisons cause slow painful deaths to target animals like rats and mice, and can cause second-degree poisoning to predators like cougars, birds of prey, and endangered species like the San Joaquin kit fox.

AB 1322 would add diphacinone, an anticoagulant rodenticide, to the existing rodent poison ban in California. The California Department of Pesticide Regulation will be accepting comments on the rodenticide ban through July 19, 2023. Submit a comment to help save countless animal lives!

The bill was introduced by Assembly Member Laura Friedman and will also require the Department of Pesticide Regulation to implement stronger regulations on second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides to minimize non-target wild animal deaths. Rodenticides unintentionally poison wild animals who eat rodents who have directly ingested the poison. Animal companions and children tragically die from consuming rodenticides as well. In 2021, at least 2,300 children were poisoned by rodenticides in the United States, and poison was found in over half of the wild animals tested in the state.

Human-rodent conflicts can be easily resolved through non-lethal methods. Prevention is the most effective method and includes solutions as simple as proper waste disposal, food storage, and ensuring buildings are sealed. Rodent birth control methods have also proven to be effective in some situations. Rodenticides are an outdated killing method that cause immense suffering to all who encounter it.

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