# Rodenticide use moratorium

A term used when buying pest control.

A California ban on using two whole rodenticide classes, which no applicator license buys back.

California prohibits the USE of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides statewide until its own regulator certifies otherwise, and since 2025 it prohibits the first-generation ones too, diphacinone, chlorophacinone and warfarin. A structural applicator's license does not buy any of it back: the restriction attaches to the product and not to the person holding it. The exceptions are contracts and not loopholes, and they are where the work went. Vector control districts may still treat, and so may a government or utility crew protecting water supply and hydroelectric infrastructure. The wider carve-out is agricultural activity, which the statute defines to reach food warehouses, slaughterhouses, canneries, factories, breweries and wineries. None of it reaches a park or wildlife refuge, where both classes are barred outright. Read the revenue for how much of it depends on a chemistry the state has taken away, then ask what the crew switched to and what the switch costs per stop.

Part of: Buying a Pest Control Business (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-pest-control-business)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-pest-control-business/terms/rodenticide-use-moratorium
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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