Bromadiolone is usually restricted to use in and around buildings. But given the widespread impacts on wildlife, using bromadiolone at the proposed scale will do more harm than good.

“With bromadiolone it can take up for a week for a mouse to die, and in that time they’re out there being prey. This stuff will pass along the food chain and cause our population of Murray cod ...

Bromadiolone can be bought over the counter in Australia for use at home, but is not allowed on farms because of the risk it poses to other animals. NSW Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall said the ...

Bromadiolone has been illegal to use outdoors in NSW since 2017, but about 6000 litres was used to successfully battle the state’s last mouse plague in 2014.

Coonabarabran resident Susanne Sovic isn't as relieved by Bromadiolone's rejection. "While people clap and cheer about this poison being rejected, another farmer walks away from the land," she said.

Bromadiolone was a central plank in a $50 million emergency package announced last week by the NSW government, designed to combat the mouse plague.

Bromadiolone is a rat poison that can be purchased freely in shops. A number of cases have been reported internationally where people have been poisoned, with a mortality rate of 20 percent.