Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Brodifacoum is a highly lethal 4-hydroxycoumarin vitamin K antagonist anticoagulant poison. In recent years it has become one of the world’s most widely used pesticides. It is typically used as a rodenticide but is also used to control larger mammalian pests such as possum.Brodifacoum has an especially long half-life in the body which ranges to several months requiring prolonged treatment with antidotal vitamin K for both human and pet poisonings.
