Precautions Urged With New Fumigant
A product called “Larvacide” -'now being marketed in New Zealand for use in both soil fumigation and rabbit destruction, consists Wholly of the poisonous chemical liquid chloropicrin. Damage to the lungs is the most important and most serious effect of chloropicrin vapour, and it is this property which makes it poisonous and ultimately causes death if enough of the vapour is inhaled. The lung-in-juring properties of chloropicrin vapour led to its use as a war gas during the First World War. Fumes from “Larvacide” are considerably less poisonous than the gas given off when “Cyanogas” comes into contact with water or moist air, but it should be handled with the same care as “Cyanogas” all other poisonous materials.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 97, 13 February 1950, Page 5
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123Precautions Urged With New Fumigant Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 97, 13 February 1950, Page 5
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