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Poisonings and Chemical Exposures

Pesticides

Queensland Health Health Information Directory Home HID : Accidents, Injuries and Poisonings : PoisoningsandChemicalExposures Topic: Pesticides Description A pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, ...

Preventing poisonings in children

Children, especially toddlers, are particularly prone to poisonings given their habit of tasting everything.,Most important dangers for poisoning are pharmaceuticals (especially paracetamol), home cleaning agents, poisonous plants in the garden ...

Rat poison contamination

The active ingredient in rat poison is brodifacoum. It is used in baits to kill rodents such as mice and rats. It is sometimes referred to as a super-warfarin, because it is longer acting than the drug Warfarin. Warfarin is used to prevent ...

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Last updated: 6 July, 2008
Last reviewed: 6 July, 2008