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Monica Bartos,Kaitlin Kelly-Reif,Stephanie Hoekstra,Sylvie Dao,Eric Gumerlock,Stephanie Falzone,Dale Douk

doi:10.15365/cate.41122012

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Rodent control is a widespread activity in the U.S Of the $90 million per year that residents spend on rodent control products, 90% of those products are in the dry bait category, such as anticoagulants (U.S Environmental Protection Agency 2006)
In the US, many non-target species have been poisoned by Second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) (Stone et al 1999; Way et al 2006; Riley et al 2007; Uzal et al 2007; U.S Environmental Protection Agency 2008; Albert et al 2010)
Use of rodenticides in the agricultural conditions in Europe has been investigated through user surveys (Tosh et al 2011). These results indicated that users were generally aware of the effects on non-target species, but did not always follow all best practices for application (Tosh et al 2011)

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Rodent control is a widespread activity in the U.S Of the $90 million per year that residents spend on rodent control products, 90% of those products are in the dry bait category, such as anticoagulants (U.S Environmental Protection Agency 2006). In the US, many non-target species have been poisoned by SGARs (Stone et al 1999; Way et al 2006; Riley et al 2007; Uzal et al 2007; U.S Environmental Protection Agency 2008; Albert et al 2010). Rodents that ingest SGARs may display behaviors that facilitate the ability of predators to capture them (Cox and Smith 1990). We might expect poisoned rodents to be at greater risk of being captured as prey than healthy animals. Consumption of either prey or carcasses contaminated with rodenticides may lead to poisoning of a predator (Brakes and Smith 2005; Rattner et al 2011). Even if products are used inside buildings, poisoned rodents may travel outside where predators could catch them (Stone et al 1999)

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