After years of challenges to federal environmental officials, the maker of d-Con rat traps has agreed to discontinue a consumer line of poison-laced baits that have accidentally harmed children, ...

(Beyond Pesticides, December 18, 2013) A national environmental group is supporting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) efforts to protect children by asking national retailers, including ...

Smell a rat? That could be because lawn-care specialist Scotts Miracle-Groannounced today that it has agreed to acquire the Tomcat consumer rodent control business of Bell Laboratories, whose products ...

After a long battle with federal officials, Reckitt Benckiser, maker of d-CON rat and mouse poisons, has voluntarily agreed to stop manufacturing 12 of its products by the end of this year.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to ban the sale of 12 D-Con mouse and rat poison products produced by Reckitt Benckiser, Inc. because these products fail to comply with current EPA ...

Resistance to rodenticides, the increasing complexity of effective control programmes and recent warmer winters have led to a ...

(Beyond Pesticides, December 15, 2010) Every year, more than 10,000 kids are poisoned by rodenticides (pesticides made to kill rodents) and virtually all of the calls to U.S. poison control centers ...