For Immediate Release, December 29, 2020 Contact: Mike Andrade-Heymsfield, Animal Legal Defense Fund, (707) 364-8387, media@aldf.org Lisa Owens-Viani, Raptors Are The Solution, (510) 549-2963, lowensvi@icloud.com New California Law Protecting Animals From Super-toxic Rat Poisons Takes Effect in 2021 State Leads Nation on Safeguards for Most-dangerous Anticoagulant Rodenticides SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Increased safeguards to protect California’s native wildlife and domestic animals from super-toxic rat poisons will begin on January 1, 2021. The California Ecosystems Protection Act (A.B. 1788) places important restrictions on the use of super-toxic rodenticides, known as second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides, to protect the state’s animals. “This common sense step to better protect our wildlife from these dangerous rat poisons should be adopted across the nation,” said Jonathan Evans, environmental health legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “When there are literally hundreds of safer, cost-effective solutions on store shelves there’s no reason to leave the worst of the worst poisons on the market.”