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The internal boar fabric is appearing azulelectric in California
Somewhere in Monterey County, California, the javalis interior is acquiring an electric blue tone – which we usually consider appetizing when it appears, for example, in a gum or in a granized. Reason: The boars can’t read labels.
In March this year, the fauna control expert And Burton He first noticed something strange when he was suing javalis caught near Salinas, south of São Francisco, California.
Instead of pink or whitishing muscles and fat, it found fabric of intense blue. It was as if the animals were fed with Cool Blue Gatorade, isotonic drink with a neon blue characteristic.
According to, Burton warned California’s Wildlife and Wildlife Department (CDFW), which performed analyzes and confirmed that animals they had ingested dipacinonaa raticidal commonly used by farmers to control skills and rats populations.
Difacinone is usually mixed with tinged bait grains of live blue, to signal to humans that are not suitable for consumption.
Unfortunately, the wild boars cannot read labels, and end up eating directly from these bait points. The product is not strong enough to immediately kill a 90 -pound pig, but Continued exposure accumulates in the body. In addition to coloring the tissues in blue, it makes the meat toxic.
Robert poppegaveterinarian and toxicologist at the UC Davis Animal Health and Food Security Laboratory, confirmed to what his laboratory received a sample of the animal.
“Blue pigment is almost certainly from a blue dye added to a Anticoagulant bait formulationa poison for rodents, but we couldn’t check analytically, ”Poppenga told Insider.” We had a similar case in a wild pig a few years ago. “
According to CDFW, boars may be drinking the poison directly or feeding on other contaminated animals. Some show visible signs of poisoning, such as unusual blue muscle tissue; others seem perfectly normal, but transport raticidal residues in the organs.
One conducted by the USDA Wildlife Services in 2018 detected traces of raticidal in more than 8% of wild boars that live near areas under human management.
Cooking meat does not eliminate the toxin. If consumed, it can cause human symptoms of raticidal poisoning, such as intense fatigue and internal bleeding.
By 2024, California applied more rigorous restrictions, having banned most of the use of dipacinona out of certified pest control operations. But evil may already be done.
Boars now actively seek the bait stations, and contamination can spread, especially in rural areas where hunting meat consumption is frequent.
