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Heated testimony as committee weighs restricting rodenticide sales to licensed applicators
Summary
The committee heard hours of testimony for and against HB1676, which would limit sales of first‑ and second‑generation anticoagulant rodenticides to licensed or registered applicators. Wildlife and conservation groups urged the restriction to reduce secondary poisoning; industry and farm groups urged rulemaking or opposed statutory limits. The Department of Agriculture recommended using the pesticide control board’s rulemaking authority.
House Bill 1676, which would restrict sales of specified anticoagulant rodenticides to licensed or registered applicators, drew extensive and sometimes sharply divergent testimony at the Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing.
Lede: Representative Barber, one of the bill sponsors, told the panel the measure is intended to reduce secondary poisoning of raptors, carnivores and pets by limiting consumer access to highly persistent anticoagulant rodenticides and ensuring that products are handled by trained applicators.
Why it matters: Proponents — including New Hampshire Fish and Game, New Hampshire Audubon and wildlife rehabilitators — said evidence shows widespread bioaccumulation and direct mortality among raptors and other species and that restricting…
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