Predator Defense Keeps Compound 1080 Out of Oregon Despite the ban, pre-1972 stockpiles were never recalled or destroyed and this poison is still illegally used today to kill wolves, coyotes, and eagles. Shortly thereafter, the EPA issued PR Notice 72-2 that cancelled all registered predator control uses of sodium fluoroacetate, sodium cyanide, and strychnine. In 1972 President Nixon issued Executive Order 11643 banning the use of poisons to control predators on Federal lands. as a rodenticide and mammalian predacide.

Read our comprehensive 'Ban 1080 Newsletter,' published in Winter 2002.īuilding on research conducted by a Belgian scientist at the end of the 19th century, Compound 1080-sodium fluoroacetate-was developed in the U.S.

Read our esssay, 'Two Killers that Need to Go,' about Compound 1080, lethal M-44 sodium cyanide devices, and legislation currently in the works to ban both.

With the new specter of terrorism, why does the government continue to support production and export of one of the world's deadliest poisons? Compound 1080 is so potent that animals eating tainted carcasses-even months after that animal has died-can succumb to secondary poisoning. Victims can also experience heightened anxiety, hallucination, intense pain, and deep depression. Symptoms typically include a cycle of repeated vomiting, involuntary hyperextension of the limbs, convulsions, and collapse. Symptoms are not immediate-they begin to appear half an hour or more after exposure and may last from hours to days. Once exposed, victims of 1080 poisoning die slowly. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has placed sodium fluoroacetate-Compound 1080-in the Toxicity Category I indicating the highest degree of acute toxicity, for acute oral toxicity. It is colorless, has no odor or taste, and it dissolves easily in water.

It’s toxic! One teaspoon of Compound 1080 could kill 100 people. | Read press release What is Compound 1080? Bea suffered the agonizing and classic symptoms of Compound 1080 poisoning after an encounter with a sheep carcass. Follow us on Faceboook for the latest updates.īrooke and Cliff Everest of Bozeman, MT, lost their beloved dog, an American Brittany named Bea, whiile on a rafting trip on the White River in Utah.Then spread the word to every possible person. 2471, the Chemical Poisons Reduction Act of 2019. Find your Representative and urge them to sign on to and/or support H.R.Track the bill as it moves through Congress.2471, 'The Chemical Poisons Reduction Act of 2019,' will soon be posted at this link It should be supported without resistance as an essential public safety measure by all elected officials. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), is gaining significant cosponsorship, as it is common-sense, tax-saving, and nonpartisan.

This bipartisan legislation, co-introduced with Rep. 2471, aka 'Canyon's Law,' in honor of former M-44 victim (and now activist) Canyon Mansfield of Pocatello, Idaho. The new bill is called the 'Chemical Poisons Reduction Act of 2019,' H.R.

House of Representatives by Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon) on May 2, 2019. May 2019 - We are pleased to announce that the federal bill we've been working on for a nationwide ban on two deadly and indiscriminate poisons used for wildlife control-Compound 1080 and the sodium cyanide used in M-44s-was reintroduced in the U.S. Support Legislation to Ban Compound 1080 in the U.S.

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