AR-News: NZ firm's vermin poison attracts worldwide interest

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

27.01.2004
By SIMON COLLINS 
Foxes, wolves and other wild pests may soon be choking to death on a New 
Zealand-made poison. 
The cyanide poison, Feratox, already kills an estimated 8 million possums a 
year in New Zealand. 
The East Tamaki company that developed it, Feral R & D, is now working on new 
versions of the poison to kill foxes, wild dogs and pigs in Australia, and 
foxes, wolves and cougars in Peru and Chile. 
"They want us to make sample products and send them over," said managing 
director Jeremy Kerr. 
The company claims a world-first - process for encapsulating cyanide in 
resin. The coating stops the poison from converting instantly to a gas. 
One pea-sized poison pellet and pellets of non-toxic bait go into a paper bag 
to be hung on a tree. 
Possums smell the bait, rip open the bag and die almost instantly when they 
bite into the cyanide pellet. 
Cyanide gets inside the animal's cells and extracts oxygen from them, 
effectively starving the cells to death. 

full story:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?reportID=162576&storyID=3545691



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