Re: vitamin D3 is available to homeowners to control rats and
sal (sals@rain.org)
Wed, 04 Mar 1998 07:57:47 -0800
Have you ever seen a dog die of vitamin D3 or one of your
cats . Have you ever tried to save a barn owl or a hawk that eat a
rat or two full of vitamin D3. This is a good example of how the USDA is
hurting organic growers. This bait not only kills dogs ,cats,barn
owls,hawks,snakes and anything that may eat the rats but that the new
USDA so called organic law says it is organic as well. What a bunch
of bull . I wonder how much poison is left in the rat piss as the
rat relieves itself on the food and plants . get a cat get
real. Ask the USDA where you can find organic vitamin D3 then
ask the USDA to withdraw the Organic law and give the word organic back
to the people. The USDA takes it as a joke to provoke organic
farmers and have showed us growers that it was a big mistake letting the
fox watch the hen house. This shows me that the USDA is trying to
kill us organic growers and buyers , our pets and our friends ,the
hawks,owls,and snakes and they will die a horrible death because the USDA
says in their law that vitamin D3 is organic what a lie..
Do not trust the USDA thi=
s
is not an organic product no matter what they tell you as the USDA
doesn't known organic food from lab made gene engendered
Frankenstein plants.. Stop the USDA before it is too late. Free the
word organic and give it back to the people. Too: the USDA
"These are not the droids your looking for . Move along"
The only way to free the word organic is too tell the USDA to withdraw
the oppressive law and give the word back to the people.
At 12:15 AM 3/4/98 -0600, Susan Snow wrote:
>http://ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/newsletters/n82_88.nws=
>
>.=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Veterinary Toxicology=
Notes:
>=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Hazards of New Rodenticides to=
Pets
>=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=
Art Craigmill
>
>=A0=A0=A0=A0 A few recent additions have been made to the=
rodenticide
>armamentarium available to homeowners for control of rats and
>mice.=A0 Some of the newer products contain an active ingredient
>called cholecalciferol, also known as vitamin D3.=A0 Two of these
>products which are registered for use in California are CEVA
True
>Grit RampageR and Ortho Rat-B-Gone Rat and Mouse KillerR.=A0 The
>concentration of the active ingredient is 0.075% in each of
these
>products.=A0 Cholecalciferol is not an anticoagulant rodenticide,
>and has a unique mechanism of action.=A0 Cholecalciferol is
>activated by metabolism in the body, to a form which increases
>the absorption of calcium and phosphorus from the gut, and also
>has other effects which result in very high serum levels of
>calcium.=A0 The prolonged hypercalcemia produced by
cholecalciferol
>ingestion is delayed in onset, and insidious in progression and
>ultimately leads to death.
>
>=A0=A0=A0=A0 The vitamin D3 rodenticides have not been considered to be
a
>great hazard to pets since the published LD50 is very high.=A0 A
>report in the AVMA Journal in July 1988 indicates that these
>rodenticides may indeed pose a hazard to dogs, and that
>appropriate measures to prevent pet access to baits should be
>employed.=A0 A 30 gram packet of bait would contain about 21 mg=20
of
>cholecalciferol, and the authors of the study cited above found
>that a dose of 10 mg/kg killed each of two dogs tested.=A0 It is
>likely that the LD50 is less than 10 mg/kg.=A0 Prompt action by a
>veterinarian must be taken to save pets which accidentally
ingest
>these baits.
>
>References:
>
>Gunther, R., Felice, L., Nelson, R. and Franson, A.=A0 Toxicity=20
of
>a vitamin D3 rodenticide to dogs.=A0 JAVMA 193:211-214, 1988.
>
>Animal Health Beat Newsletter, University of Nevada-Reno.
>
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