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According to experts familiar with the issue, warfarin is a logical choice for hog toxicant, because it is effective in swine but requires much higher dosage levels to potentially affect other wildlife populations or livestock.
I would like to know more about the dosage, and how much of it is transferred into the carcass. The part that bothers me, is that this is saying that it's more effective in swine than in other mammals. Swine are often used in pharmaceutical research and heart valve transplants b/c they react similarly to humans.
Maybe eating a warfarin hog is negligible for a young healthy person. But what about an older person that is already taking warfarin, or other drugs that it might react with.
I did find this just now:
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/feral_swine/pdfs/managing-feral-pigs.pdffrom page 41:
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Toxicants are an effective and important tool for pig control in some countries, Australia and New Zealand in particular. Warfarin, an anticoagulant widely used as a rodent toxicant, has been used to control and nearly eliminate wild pig populations in Australia (Saunders et al. 1990). However, because of secondary poisoning and other environmental concerns, warfarin is not currently an option in the United States.
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More recently, researchers in Australia have developed the product PIGOUT, a bait containing the compound 1080, to achieve population reduction of at least 73% (Cowled et al. 2006a). PIGOUT is designed to attract wild pigs and not other native wildlife species in Australia. During trials in Australia, which has no native midsized generalist mammals and thus is an environment where speciesspecific baits are viable, the product has shown great promise (Cowled et al. 2006b). Unfortunately, research in Texas demonstrated that many nontarget species (mostly midsized generalist mammals) would be adversely impacted by toxicant-laced PIGOUT baits in North American ecosystems, and thus it is currently not a viable alternative in the United States (Campbell et al. 2006).
More about the bait approved in Texas:
https://louisianabowhunter.com/new-feral-hog-bait-approved-by-epa/Quote:
The bait is made by a company out of Colorado called Kaput. It is fed to the feral pigs for three to six weeks using a specific type feeder that only a feral pig can get its head inside to feed on the bait.