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• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7092
• Author: Eisler, R.
• Title: Arsenic Hazards to Fish, Wildlife, and Invertebrates
• USFW Year: 1988.
• USFW - Doc Type: A Synoptic Review.
• Copyright Material: NO

Table 6. (continued)
Organism and arsenical
Effect
Referencea
Mule deer, Odocoileus hemionus
hemionus
Silvisar-510 (mixture of Single oral LD-50 dose >320
cacodylic acid and tri- mg/kg BW; appetite loss.
ethanolamine cacodylate)
White-tailed deer, Odocoileus
virginianus
Sodium arsenite (used to
debark trees)
Arsenic acid (herbicide to
control Johnson grass)
Lethal dose of 923 to 2,770
mg equivalent to about 34 mg/kg
BW; liver residues of 40 mg/kg
fresh weight.
23 deer killed from apparent
misuse. Arsenic levels, in
mg/kg fresh weight, in deer
found dead were 19 in liver,
18 in kidney, and 22.5 in
rumen contents. Soils from
area contained - 2.4 mg As/kg,
and water 0.42 mg As/1.
Domestic sheep, Ovis aries
Arsanilic acid
Sodium arsenite
One-year-old castrates fed
diets with 273 mg As/kg
for 28 days had 0.54 mg As/l
in blood, 29 mg/kg dry
weight in liver, 24 in
kidney, and 1.2 in muscle
(vs. <0.01 in all control
tissues). After 6 days on
an As-free diet, liver re-
sidues were <5 mg/kg DW.
Maximum tissue levels in
sheep fed diets containing
27 mg As/kg for 28 days
were 3.2 mg/kg DW kidney;
for an 144 mg/kg diet,
the maximum tissue level
was 27 mg/kg DW liver.
Single oral dose of 5 to
12 mg/kg BW (0.2 to 0.5
grams) was acutely toxic.
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12
12
7
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