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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...
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...
The landscape of public health pest control is changing. Budgets are being cut across the country, with most local authorities (LAs) still being the main source of dealing with public health pest problems as they did before, but with significant reductions in resourcing. Through analysing the UK pes...
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...
Health Madrid as the municipal health administration of the City Council of Madrid (Environmental Health) manages pest prevention and control operations. Feral pigeons have increased during the last decades as one of the most frequent pest problems in Madrid City. The pest control sector, as almost ...
Madrid City Council has always used maps for this purpose and in the last decade has taken a further step incorporating Geographical Information Technologies (GIS). As a result urban pest control has improved notably and integrated pest management principals have been straightforwardly accomplished....
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 ...
The European Commission’s Biocidal Products Directive, Council Directive 98/8 EC (BPD), is the largest regulatory exercise ever to affect the urban pest control industry. Its impact is global because any company selling pest control products in the European Union must follow its principles. All acti...
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 situation concerning cockroach (Blattella germanica (L.)) presence and insecticide control was investigated in high-rise blocks of low-income flats in the French city of Rennes. The aim of this study was to analyse the results of professional cockroach insecticide treatments and to try t...
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...
Pest control in urban environment can be carried out either sporadically or in a concentrated way, covering large areas. The efficacy of organized pest control programs comprising large parts of cities or even whole cities is far higher than the success of separate control works done by individual m...