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" Status of APHIS vertebrate pesticides and drugs "
Fagerstone, Kathleen A.; Schafer, Edward W., Jr.
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AL
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943236
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LA04d003kx
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English
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Fagerstone, Kathleen A.; Schafer, Edward W., Jr.
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Status of APHIS vertebrate pesticides and drugs [Article]\ Fagerstone, Kathleen A.; Schafer, Edward W., Jr.
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Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference
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18
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1998
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The Wildlife Services (WS) Program manages wildlife/human conflicts by using an integrated approach employing some vertebrate pesticides. These are used in such small quantities that private industry cannot afford to register and produce them profitably. On behalf of WS, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) maintains about 30 federal and state pesticide registrations, containing seven active ingredients, with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). These include: the Compound 1080 Livestock Protection Collar, DRC-1339 Concentrates (Starlicide), Gas Cartridges (carbon and sodium nitrate), the M-44 (sodium cyanide), and a number of baits and concentrates containing Strychnine Alkaloid and Zinc Phosphide. In 1988 Congress amended the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, requiring reregistration of almost all older pesticides. Reregistration had an extensive impact on the WS Program. Over 400 studies, with an estimated cost of about
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