All rodenticide bait products marketed to residential consumers must be sold as a block or paste bait, packaged with an EPA-approved bait station. Mouse and rat poisons in pellet form are banned.
Products marketed to residential consumers may contain no more than 1 pound of rodenticide bait.
Products marketed to residential consumers will no longer contain the most toxic and persistent pesticide active ingredients: second generation anticoagulants brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difenacoum, and difethialone. Products containing these active ingredients will only be available for commercial use and for residential use by professional pest control operators.
That leaves Bromethalin legal to sell to consumers (who themselves are not forbidden to use the above from what I see, only that it is not to be sold to them), but since Products marketed to residential consumers may contain no more than 1 pound of rodenticide bait then the most effective poison have found - JT Eaton 750 Top Gun All Weather Rodenticide Bait Block Bromethalin Neurological Bait - that was legal to see to consumers may no be, if 1 lb. means per serving, vs. per container. Yet it would have to come with a EPA-approved bait station
My letter to the EPS re: https://www.epa.gov/safepestcontrol/mouse-and-rat-poisons-pellet-form-banned
I strongly protest the EPA banning all rodenticide bait over 1 lb + w/out a bait station from being sold to residential consumers.
After trying other rodenticide types, I found JT Eaton 750 Top Gun All Weather Rodenticide Bait Block Bromethalin Neurological Bait in a 120 block, 4 lb pail to be the most economical and effective rodenticide that could be sold to residential consumers, but which now seems to be effectively illegal for me to buy!
I should be able to buy my own bait station, and in the volume that is most economical and warranted for our area.
We live in a very densely populated, low-income American (mostly Latino residents) city, and when I moved to our present location then rats were all over the place, with many roles in yards and even playing tag (it seemed) in the daytime right near children.
As the city would only bait sewers, a neighbor and I placed bait, and which greatly reduced the rat population.
This was later helped by the city providing new trash barrels (yet which rats still eat thru). It also began offering some bait stations but that are not maintained and we have no control over = not as effective as our own neighborhood “rat patrol”
And as rats from other areas migrate here (esp. when the city digs up roads) then periodically we must place bait in places where no cats or humans are affected.
In fact, at 71 years of age I have never know the latter to be a problem, though in a population of 333 million, i am sure a small percentage has been, but which simply does not warrant the new EPA regulatory overkill against residential consumers.
So now the EPA has effectively degraded the quality of life in locations as ours, and the ability of informed residents to most effectively deal with problems that they are most aware of and best able to deal with.
So you should allow a resident as myself to purchase Bromethalin Bait in a 120 block, 4 lb pail without a bait station coming with it. Note that I am not affiliated with any company that provides such.
Or requiring such to be used, not bought, with a Tier 1 bait station for outside use, but Not restricted to only the “dozen [or so] ready-to-use bait station products [that are] are registered for use” by the EPA.
Thanks. Grace and peace thru Jesus the Lord.