[1] The conjugate base, fluoroacetate occurs naturally in at least 40 plants in Australia, Brazil, and Africa.

[2] Fluoroacetic acid is a harmful metabolite of some fluorine-containing drugs (median lethal dose, LD50 = 10 mg/kg in humans).

The most common metabolic sources of fluoroacetic acid are fluoroamines and fluoroethers.

Its pKa is 2.66[contradictory], in contrast to 1.24 and 0.23 for the respective di- and trifluoroacetic acid.

The overall market is projected to rise at a considerable rate during the forecast period, 2021 to 2027.