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  1. BASF announces phaseout of popular insecticide products

    1st October 2023 PRESS RELEASE Leading pest control solutions manufacturer, BASF, has announced that its popular insecticide products, Goliath® Gel and Formidor®, will be withdrawn, with the last sales in March 2024.The phaseout comes as a result of a European-wide withdrawal of the active substance fipronil under the European Biocidal Products Regulation (Reg. EU 528/2012). [...]

  2. Royal Assent has been given to ban use of Glue boards in Wales

    The Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023, which was given Royal Assent on 17th August 2023, includes banning the use of rodent glue boards in Wales from 17th October 2023. This means that Wales will become the first nation in the UK to introduce a ban on the use of rodent glue boards and the penalty for this offence [...]

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  4. Ending use of second generation anticoagulant rodenticides bromadiolone and difenacoum in open areas and at waste dumps

    Legal authorisation is being withdrawn for open area and waste dump use for the only two second generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) currently allowed to be used that way, bromadiolone and difenacoum. This will take effect in July next year. The change was instigated voluntarily by the Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use UK, with support to [...]

  5. Orkin expands into the Thames Valley with the acquisition of Vermatech

    US-based Rollins, Inc. best known for its subsidiary pest control brand Orkin, has again demonstrated its ability to locate key acquisition targets and expand its presence in the UK. In May 2023 one of the Company’s UK subsidiaries finalised the acquisition of Vermatech Pest Control Ltd. based in Oxfordshire. Husband and wife, Andrew and Deb [...]