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EPA Bans Many Household Rat and Mouse Poisons
Cybercast News Service ^ | 6/7/11 | Susan Jones

Posted on 06/07/2011 10:18:53 AM PDT by Nachum

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday that it plans to ban the sale of “the most toxic rat and mouse poisons, as well as most loose bait and pellet products” to residential customers. The goal is to better protect children, pets and wildlife. “These changes are essential to reduce the thousands of accidental exposures of children that occur every year from rat and mouse control products and also to protect household pets,” said Steve Owens, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. The EPA also will require that all rat and mouse poisons

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KEYWORDS: banratpoisons; bans; epa; eparatpoisons; household; lifehate; many; pestilence; plague; populationcontrol; ratpoisons
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1 posted on 06/07/2011 10:18:55 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Stock up now folks. Get ‘em while they’re hot.


2 posted on 06/07/2011 10:19:59 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Nachum

It’s a move of desperate self-preservation.


3 posted on 06/07/2011 10:20:40 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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To: Nachum

We use electronic “zappers”. It kills them just as dead.


4 posted on 06/07/2011 10:20:45 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: Nachum

Ya think that these will be used in the pills Hussein’s Death Panels will be dispensing to the elderly?


5 posted on 06/07/2011 10:21:09 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: DJ MacWoW

>> We use electronic “zappers”.

I’d like to know more. What model do you favor?

tks


6 posted on 06/07/2011 10:22:04 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Since when did EPA become an omni-safety bureau? This should be a consumer products issue, at best.


7 posted on 06/07/2011 10:23:45 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Chicago thugs/goons now running EPA bought off by professional exterminators association. Now only professional exterminators will be able to use nasty stuff.

Children and poor hit hardest as they will have to learn to live with rats and mice since they can’t afford professionals’ fees.


8 posted on 06/07/2011 10:23:50 AM PDT by american_ranger
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To: Nachum
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

The Plague, brought to you by the Plague.


9 posted on 06/07/2011 10:24:12 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Some of us still 'hold these truths to be self-evident'..Enough to save the country? Time will tell.)
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To: Nachum

So Willard wins in 2011, not 2012?


10 posted on 06/07/2011 10:24:23 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (Welcome to the Willard Romney, "It's My Turn" tour..................)
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To: Nachum

Protect children and pets? Seems we should protect them from vermin and the diseases they carry, no? You just use the bait or pellet out of reach of pets and children. We have woods behind our house and get a mouse from time to time. We also have 3 dogs. Have used the pellets and the dogs have never gotten to them.

What doesn’t the government want to control (besides spending, of course)?

Light bulbs, gas mileage, toilets, circumcision, how we trim our trees. And I heard yesterday the United States in #9 on the list of free economies? Number nine??? Sickening.


11 posted on 06/07/2011 10:24:51 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Nervous Tick

We use both Victor and Rat Zapper. Both work well. They can be put behind things and in cupboards. We have cats and it’s much safer than poison.


12 posted on 06/07/2011 10:25:48 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Next week the EPA is going to mandate that all sharp corners be rounded off.

I wish I was joking ...


13 posted on 06/07/2011 10:26:03 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Some of us still 'hold these truths to be self-evident'..Enough to save the country? Time will tell.)
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To: american_ranger

Next ban: cats and small dogs?


14 posted on 06/07/2011 10:26:08 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Sybeck1
So Willard wins in 2011, not 2012?

I hope I'm not the only person to get that reference.

15 posted on 06/07/2011 10:26:25 AM PDT by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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To: Nachum

Protecting their own...............


16 posted on 06/07/2011 10:26:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (I killed Schrodinger's Cat with Occam's Razor.................)
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To: Nachum

Another thing to stock up on. They’re not going to be satisfied until we have a big-time return of bubonic plague.


17 posted on 06/07/2011 10:26:56 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Nachum

dumbasses

how many more people will die from rat infestations?

do they even KNOW about the black plague?


18 posted on 06/07/2011 10:27:04 AM PDT by Mr. K (CAPSLOCK! -Unleash the fury! [Palin/Bachman 2012- unbeatable ticket])
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To: Nachum
I found a great mouse catcher last year - works better than the bait traps:


19 posted on 06/07/2011 10:27:57 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Nachum

I have a Yorkie he gets all the mice lol


20 posted on 06/07/2011 10:28:14 AM PDT by Moleman
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