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Title

STATUS OF ALPHA CHLORALOSE AND OTHER IMMOBILIZING/EUTHANIZING CHEMICALS WITHIN THE ANIMAL DAMAGE CONTROL PROGRAM

Authors

Paul P. Woronecki, USDA Denver Wildlife Research Center, Sandusky, OH
William L. Thomas, USDA Hyattsville, MD

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

October 1993

In 1992 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Animal Damage Control (ADC) program was granted approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), under a continuing Investigational New Animal Drug agreement, to use Alpha-chloralose (A-C) nationwide for capturing nuisance waterfowl, coots, and pigeons. FDA and ADC have imposed several requirements, restrictions and conditions on the operational use of A-C. Training and certification are required to use A-C and other approved immobilizing and euthanizing agents.