Brodifacoum *5%, *8%TC Rodenticide
CAS number *********0
PH:4.**8.0; Weight loss on heating≤1.0; Acetone Insoluble≤0.5%
Brodifacoum is a highly lethal 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.
Brodifacoum is a *-hydroxycoumarin anticoagulant, with a similar
mode of action to its historical predecessors dicoumarol and
warfarin. However, due to very high potency and long duration of
action (elimination half-life of *0 – **0 days), it is
characterised as a "second generation" or "superwarfarin"
anticoagulant.
