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1080 Poison
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鮏ompound 1080 or sodium monofluoroacetate is widely used in Australia and New Zealand to control pest animals.
Fluoroacetate, present in compound 1080, is naturally occurring and found in about 40 native plant species in Australia, primarily of the genera, Gastralobium, which grow in Western Australia, across northern Australia in the Northern Territory and in central Queensland.
No fluoroacetate bearing plants are known to occur in Tasmania or the other southern States.
Compound 1080 is a white fluffy powder that is odourless and tasteless. 1080 was first synthesised in Europe in 1896 and developed in the USA as a rodenticide during the 1940s. It was first used as a rabbit poison in Tasmania in 1952.