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Together through their European industry association, A.I.S.E. (the International Association for Soaps, Detergents and Maintenance products), the manufacturers of insecticides and repellents for household and professional use have joined forces in order to communicate to EU Authorities (ECHA, Europ...

Biocidal products are necessary for the control of harmful urban pests to human or animal health and for the control of those that cause damage to natural or manufactured materials. Urban pests are mainly controlled by biocides from Product-type (PT) 8 (wood preservatives), PT14 (rodenticides), PT18...

Biocidal products are necessary for the control of harmful urban pests to human or animal health and for the control of those that cause damage to natural or manufactured materials. Urban pests are mainly controlled by biocides from Product-type (PT) 8 (wood preservatives), PT14 (rodenticides), PT18...

Assessment of the biocidal products against urban pests are based on robust methodologies, which are described in various European guidelines. The guidelines are regularly improved thanks to experience gained during biocidal product assessment, and European technical expert meetings. The objective i...

Urban Pest Management Programs demand spatial information. Madrid City Council has been incorporating Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for the last three decades. As a result, Health Madrid’s Vector Control Department (DCV) has improved urban pest management notably. Systematic rat control wit...

Aquatain AMF is a ready-to-use silicone-based liquid (polydimethylsiloxane – PDMS), easy to apply on the surface of standing and stagnant water. It prevents the development of mosquitos by forming an ultra-fine film over the water’s surface. This chemical is not considered a biocide under UE laws, a...

It will be twenty years in 2022 that the notifications of active substances had began in Europe. Companies mainly from Europe and a few elsewhere have notified a bit more than 1650 actives under the 21 Product Type groups. Today there are only some 450 actives left in the system. What has happened d...

During the summer of 2018 Madrid City Council received an unusual number of complaints related with insect bites near the Manzanares river. Consequently, the Vector Control Department of Health Madrid performed a series of inspections at different points of the river. Which resulted in the verificat...

During the summer of 2018 Madrid City Council received an unusual number of complaints related with insect bites near the Manzanares river. Consequently, the Vector Control Department of Health Madrid performed a series of inspections at different points of the river. Which resulted in the verificat...

The Public Health Agency of Barcelona (ASPB Catalan acronym) is in charge of the surveillance and control of pests, such as some rodents, in public green areas and sewage system of the City. In the context of recent legal restrictions on the use of rodenticides, the control in green surfaces through...

The Public Health Agency of Barcelona (ASPB Catalan acronym) is in charge of the surveillance and control of pests, such as cockroaches, in public areas and sewage system of the City. As in other Mediterranean cities, Periplaneta americana has colonized the sewage system of Barcelona in last years, ...

Initially infestations of houses by Cimex lectularius were sporadically detected in the middle of the previous decade and increased over the past years. Data obtained by the Environmental Health Department have shown events increase by 1000% in the past five years for the whole city. Among the 21 Ci...

Repellents are biocides and a proof of efficacy is required for active substance inclusion as well as for product authorization. Here, we describe two test systems for efficacy evaluation of ant repellents with the substances DEET 50 %, Margosa extracts 100 %, baking powder: sodium hydrogen carbonat...

This paper outlines the current status in Europe of Anobium punctatum and reviews its biology, environmental requirements and food sources. It will also review historic insecticidal treatment methods, their efficacy and the long term problems their residues may cause. It evaluates the efficacy of cu...

Under the European Union Biocidal Products Regulation repellents are classified as biocides, and are subject to efficacy studies. To facilitate testing of repellents for product registration the EU has provided technical guidelines. The guidelines leave uncertainties as to how efficacy should be exa...

There are several regions in Poland where mosquitoes emerge in huge numbers almost every year. Some of them are areas of protected nature - mainly wetlands, where the insects cannot be controlled in mass actions. Many inhabitants or tourists visiting these regions try to cope with the problem on the...

Innovation means many things to many people and some definitions that may be considered as representative, particularly with respect to public health pest control include “The act of introducing something new”, “a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation” and “gene...

Standardized test methods by which the efficacies of conventional chemical wood preservatives against insects determine their toxic effects against larvae of wood boring beetles or their feeding prevention by termites. Although alternative control strategies to the application of biocides exist, suc...

Periplaneta americana is broadly accepted as the major insect pest in the sewage systems of Spain. The environmental conditions of our country, especially in eastern and southern regions, let the populations of this insect develop to enormous numbers with the risk to become a sanitary problem. Commo...

In a semi natural test system for efficacy evaluation of rodenticidal products according to the Infectious Diseases Protection Act of the Federal Republic of Germany, 80 choice tests with Mus musculus and 62 choice tests with Rattus norvegicus from 1984 to 2010 were evaluated. The tests were conduct...

Current regulatory framework. The placing on the market on biocidal products in the European Union is governed by Directive 98/8/EC (http://eurlex. europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31998L0008:EN:NOT). The current Directive establishes a two-step process of approval: 1. evaluation of the ...

Although there exists many studies that analyze the effectiveness of the insecticides on cockroaches in conditions of laboratory, those that study their effectiveness in sewers are less abundant. The aim of the study whose results are presented is the analysis of the effectiveness and persistence of...

The Biocidal Products Directive (98/8/EC), or BPD, is a recent piece of pan-European legislation that has been incorporated into the national law of each member state. It will regulate all biocidal products that are not covered by earlier legislation that deals with crop protection products (91/414/...

Compliance costs in the pesticide industry have grown considerably. This has been driven by new scientific methods used to assess pesticide risk and exposure. At the same time advances in computer technology and the Internet have lent credibility to data harmonization such that the industry goal of ...

In 1993 the European Commission put forward a proposal for a mandatory authorisation scheme to cover the supply of biocides. The Directive aims to establish a single market in biocides and provide a high level of control for man and the environment by ensuring that requirements for authorisation are...

The current proposal for a EU Biocidal Products Directive aims to establish a single market in biocides that provides a high level of control for man and the environment by ensuring that requirements for authorisation of products are equal across all Member States. The UK Regulatory Authority welcom...

This paper outlines the main objectives of the proposed biocides directive, details the products it will cover and briefly explains how it will operate. It explains the recent modification to the proposal (inclusion of the Common Principles), gives the current position and suggests how it will progr...

A study was initiated in the laboratory to compare the effects of spore dust and sawdust formulations of Bacillus thuringiensis var israelensisand B.sphaericus on immatures of laboratory and field samples of C. quinquefasciatus. Various types of ecological niches including cesspits, cement tanks and...