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Poisoning may come from many causes, among the chief of which are the following:

(1) Errors in medication.—By using the wrong substance or too large dose an animal may be poisoned.

(2) The exposure of poisons used for horticultural, technical, or other legitimate purposes.—Poisons used for spraying plants, disinfecting, poisoning vermin, dipping cattle or sheep, painting, smelting, dyeing, or other purposes may be so handled as to come within the reach of animals.

(3) Damaged food.—Food that has undergone putrefaction or certain kinds of fermentation or heating, may have become poisonous, producing forage poisoning, meat poisoning, cheese poisoning, etc.

(4) Poisonous plants in the pasture or forage.

(5) The bite or sting of a poisonous insect or the bite of an animal.

(6) Malicious poisoning.