Thread: venison vs brodifacoum

From my understanding there are quite a few people that want brodi to be a controlled substance and rightfully so and there are serious talks about that happening. One of the worst residual poisons out there, sediment testing in many estuaries and such places has shown up with brodi along with a couple of other residual toxins mostly found in rat bait.
There is a reason why DoC and several of the largest forestry companies in NZ have banned it.
The system appears to be rather two faced. A deer can not be taken by WARO or for pet food from an area within 2km of where brodi has been used in the past 3 years but it could be trapped or mustered in and sold to the works for consumption.
The scary thing is it is one rule for wild animals and another rule for farmed livestock so if an importer catches hold of it and drops their lip then a few farmers might find it is harder to get rid of their stock.
Someone queried above if it is palatable to deer, certainly is. A sweet cinnamon flavored cereal bait or I think you can get it in raspberry too. There is the odd interesting story around about deer being observed knocking philproof bait stations with their hooves trying to get the bait out to eat. That said most of the farms around Hawkes Bay have predominantly sentry bait stations and I personally wouldn't be too worried about eating deer from these areas even straight after the toxin has been used.
As for cutting animals open to see what they are like out of a poisoned area, I would say unless it has had a fairly high dose you won't see anything, it is an anticoagulant.
Suspected poisoning from brodi in dogs cats etc the vet just usually makes them vomit and gives them vitamin k.

I read up on some of the residue test results done on deer. Basically in one case 11 of 33 deer tested had trace levels in liver tissue. In another case none of the shot deer had any trace.
The levels were very low, so low that if we were to eat the deer our bodies poison elimination rate would be greater than the rate it could accumulate.
To put it in perspective, many people take Warfarin another anticoagulant coumarin poison.
Brodi is highly lipophilic, meaning it bonds to lipids ( fats ) so simple answer trim the fat off and throw the liver away and eat good healthy young deer taken at a time of year that there is plenty of feed around - now