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cord-275813-iddn9onx	Croddy, Eric	Rat poison and food security in the People’s Republic of China: focus on tetramethylene disulfotetramine (tetramine)	2003-10-09		.txt	text/plain	3130	171	49	One rat poison, tetramine (tetramethylene disulfotetramine) is responsible for a great percentage of death and injury in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Tetramine is an acutely toxic substance with human oral toxicity estimated as low as 0.1 mg/kg, and is widely available in open markets in mainland China—this despite being prohibited for manufacture or sale in the PRC. With no known effective antidote at this time, clinical data from the PRC show that acute cases of tetramine poisoning are extremely difficult to treat. Except for Tibet, open-source data from all mainland Chinese provinces have recorded major poisoning epiFig. 1 Three different structural representations of the same compound, tetramine sodes involving prohibited rodenticides (Zhou and Deng 2002) . In China, the rural customer has been particularly fond of rodenticides that act quickly, however, including the acutely toxic poisons that have been prohibited by the Chinese government.	./cache/cord-275813-iddn9onx.txt	./txt/cord-275813-iddn9onx.txt