Click here to send your comments to the EPA about its rodenticide mitigation proposal

Consumers can get help with rodent control and clean up around the home by visiting the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy Homes Initiative, and Rodent Control, Web sites.

Stop EPA’s Harmful Rodenticide Mitigation

EPA is proposing to take essential consumer rodenticide products off store shelves and make them available only through professional applicators.

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Let EPA know how important rodenticides are.  Contact:

Debbie Edwards, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Pesticide Programs
United States Environmental Protection Agency
edwards.debbie@epa.gov

Remember to personalize your comments, including information about why you need to control rats and mice in your home or business and why you think the proposed mitigation is not just a bad idea, but one that threatens public health.

Include your name and contact information.

Here are some key message points:

• EPA’s proposed rodenticide restrictions will severely limit my ability to control rodents and will endanger the health and well being of my family and property.

• I count on being able to purchase rodent control products at my local store – EPA’s proposal would cut off my access to products I need.

• We need rodent baits to be available and affordable. Hiring a professional is too expensive and unnecessary and will not increase the safety of people or animals contrary to EPA’s improbable assumptions.

Rats have been known to kill several hundred baby chickens in a single night. Eggs are frequently eaten, and even full-grown hens, baby pigs and lambs may be killed by wild rats.