Small turtles cannot legally be sold as pets because of the Salmonella infection risk, but half of online sellers fail to provide information about the law and the disease risk
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278443
Article Title: Online sale of small turtles circumvents public health regulations in the United States
Author Countries: USA
Funding: L.E.M., J.M.M., and N.E. Keane received an Undergraduate Research Grant from the University of Rhode Island ( https://web.uri.edu/undergraduate-research/ ). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. J.A.S. and N.E. Karraker received an award (#2018428) from the National Science Foundation - Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology ( https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/research-coordination-networks-undergraduate-biology-education-rcn-ube ). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Online sale of small turtles circumvents public health regulations in the United States
21-Dec-2022
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.