Time Taken to Die

Page No. Source Quotes from Decision Documents
393 2 Agency App. C “[time to death for possums after a single oral dose of 1080] 5.0-97.0 hours”
394 1 Agency App. C “[time to death for wallaby pouched young]  11.5-80.5 hours”
395 1 Agency App. C [21 [sheep] died within 4 days of dosing”
396 1 Agency App. C “[time to death for rabbits after single oral dose of 1080] 3.0-44.3 hours”
396 2 Agency App. C “[in  rabbits dosed with 1080] Increased sensitivity to noise or disturbance, followed by recovery or onset of further symptoms: convulsions with coughing or squeaking and death”
397 1 Agency App. C “[time to death for cats after single oral dose of 1080] varied but all died < 24 hours at the three highest [doses]”
406 1 Agency App. C “[time to death of 15 weka dosed with 1080] 4-18 hours..four survivors..dosed daily..for 14 days..the bird receiving the highest daily dose died after 5 doses”
406 1 Agency App. C “[time to death of 15 weka dosed with 2.25-18 mg/kg 1080] 4-18 hours..four survivors..[were] dosed daily with 0.9-3.6 mg/kg for 14 days..the bird receiving the highest daily dose died after 5 doses”
408 1 Agency App. C “[weka and pukeko] time to death 4-18 [hours]”
408 2 Agency App. C “time for a dove to recover after dosing with 1080, up to] 168 hours”
411 1 Agency App. C “[time to death for blackbirds dosed with 1080] 10.8-30.5 hours”
414 2 Agency App. C “the time to onset and time to death are long [in frogs and reptiles]”
417 1 Agency App. C “[time to death for grass frog 36.8 – 98.3 hours]
417 2 Agency App. C “[time to death for bluetongued lizard 14.4-522.5 hours]”
422 2 Agency App. C “A delayed action was observed (2 hours after feeding) with vigorous shaking, inability to hold onto comb, and death [in bees accessing 1080 jam baits]”
425 1 Agency App. C “Impaired behavioural effects observed (starting days 1-3) orientation and escape responses affected and general decline in responsiveness to stimuli [after cockroaches were fed 1080 cereal baits]”
704 1 Agency App. M “The Agency notes that the likelihood of a hunter taking game that has been poisoned with 1080 before the animal dies or completes excretion of the poison (which only takes about 48 hours) is remote”
47 3 Applicants’ references “With the highest dose all [cats] died within 24 h [cats given 0.1-1.3 mg/kg bw 1080]” (Eason & Frampton, 1991)
85 1 Applicants’ references “Possums that ate..small doses of 1080..either endured a protracted time to death or survived” (Henderson et al., 1999)
118 1 Applicants’ references “Signs of poisoning [in pigs] appeared [up to] 47.3 h after dosing, and deaths [up to] 80 h..after dosing” (McIlroy, 1983)
119 2 Applicants’ references “Reptiles and amphibians generally were the slowest to first show signs of poisoning” (McIlroy, 1986)
121 1 Applicants’ references “[a boy poisoned with 1080] was resuscitated from cardiac arrest, but was left with severe neurological impairment” (McTaggart, 1970)
169 1 Applicants’ references “The [poisoning] case was unusual in the very long time the rodenticide had been in the home, the mild nature of the poisoning, and the remarkably delayed onset of serious central nervous system symptoms. It demonstrates the need for even stronger control over the use of [1080, in the USA]”(Reigart et al., 1975)
14 2 Committee Decision “Animals which consume a non-lethal dose generally recover within a short period of time”
14 6 Committee Decision “possums that eat a lethal dose of 1080 usually die in 6 to 18 hours”
84 2 Committee Decision “deerstalkers…expressed particular concern about…slow and painful deaths [of deer]”