Petition updateSTOP 1080 Poison Drop, near Tira Ora Estate, New Zealand. People andAnimals Live here...The PAN pesticide database classifies 1080 as one of the few "PAN Bad Actor Chemicals"
Annebeth RilesTira Ora Bay, Pelorus Sound, New Zealand
Sep 3, 2016
Monofluoroacetate was originally developed and marketed as an insecticide. It functions primarily by interfering with the citrate step in the Krebs cycle [5]. The Krebs cycle is the major and an essential mechanism by which all air breathing creatures utilize food to produce energy. It is therefore universally toxic to all animals, essentially every living thing except plants and some micro-organisms. The degree of toxicity of 1080 is extreme, but varies somewhat among species. It is categorised by the World Health Organization (WHO) as 1A, their highest rating, "extremely toxic" [1,2].
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