I read this article this morning about wild hogs eating rodenticide which causes their meat to turn blue. I am wondering if anyone has seen this? Obviously you do not want to eat blue meat that is contaminated with rodenticide.
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I read a few articles on this as well. Diphacinone is an anticoagulant, not a "poison" as some articles have stated. Diphacinone is still used by the agricultural industry and by licensed exterminators. In agricultural use, diphacinone comes in a bag or plastic container as sunflower seed kernels that have been dyed blue or as blue pellets that look like pellet stove pellets.
Anticoagulants have been used in various over the counter products to exterminate mice and rats in households for years. Warfarin (used in patients to treat blood clots) and coumadin (also used for blood clots) have been used as rodenticides as well. Brodifacoum is another very powerful anticoagulant.
California banned all anticoagulants and the EPA banned the most potent types of anticoagulants from residential use in pellet form. Block or paste baits with an EPA approved bait station can still be purchased over the counter.
Anticoagulant secondary toxicity is rare. This is why the pigs mentioned in the article are still running around. Their meat and fat tissues have absorbed the blue dye but they haven't died because the difference in amount of material needed to kill a mouse versus a pig is huge but the warnings are correct. Don't eat a pig with blue fat or meat.
Anticoagulants have been used in various over the counter products to exterminate mice and rats in households for years. Warfarin (used in patients to treat blood clots) and coumadin (also used for blood clots) have been used as rodenticides as well. Brodifacoum is another very powerful anticoagulant.
California banned all anticoagulants and the EPA banned the most potent types of anticoagulants from residential use in pellet form. Block or paste baits with an EPA approved bait station can still be purchased over the counter.
Anticoagulant secondary toxicity is rare. This is why the pigs mentioned in the article are still running around. Their meat and fat tissues have absorbed the blue dye but they haven't died because the difference in amount of material needed to kill a mouse versus a pig is huge but the warnings are correct. Don't eat a pig with blue fat or meat.
