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Can New York City Ever Win Its War Against Rats?

What do rats do in heat waves? Or to put it differently, what is it that they don’t do? As temperatures have continued to stifle all will, and the humidity level has been Bangkok-in-a-thunderstorm-percent high, I raised the question with Kathleen Corradi, New York City’s first dedicated rat czar. The specific target of her enmity …

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New technology boosting predator free fight

It involves a large network of robust and secure tunnels that contain newly developed H2-Zero dispensers, both produced by Zero Invasive Predators, a company supported by the Next Foundation established to remove rats, possums and stoats from large mainland areas. The dispenser uses a hydrogen producing coin cell battery that allows the gas to expand, …

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FDA: Thousands of Bags of Rice Recalled Over Possible Rodent Contamination

Lundberg Family Farms has recalled one-pound pouches of its Sustainable Wild Blend Gourmet Rice after a “foreign object that appears to be of rodent origin” was detected in the product, according to a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notice. The company voluntarily pulled 4,600 cases—over 27,500 individual bags—of the rice from shelves as part of …

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