Indoor Residential Uses: We lost another Product!

Well your good friends at PMRA have just published another Decision.  Again restricting product uses…

So we have lost use of propoxur for indoor residential treatments.  The  reasoning?  Never really explained that I can see, even trying to read in between the lines, the fine print, the “sub-paragraph II.a.a.b, clause 2.7”….

So folks out there in Professional Products…what’s that leave us?

Pyrethroids!

And what’s under re-evaluation?

Pyrethroids!

And what uses of this chemistry will they ban?

Indoor residential!

Problems I see in the PMRA’s blind sided and short sided strategy?

a.         Resistance.  By elimination of various classes of chemistry, allowing for rotation, it will reduce the time it takes for a species to develop resistance.

b.         Importation of non-regulated goods illegally by the end-user (home owner)

c.         Increase use of Domestic labeled products indoors by untrained users (home owners) – I can think of a couple of mass marketers that will enjoy that.

We have it in the rodenticide market now.  Bromadiolone only outdoors.  But what about the great baits we have?  Wait…I missed something…the one we now have for roaches…

(ONE)

Doesn’t work anymore.

And targeted baits work on the target….so we need a bed bug bait, roach bait, silver fish bait, earwig bait…..

And somehow the PMRA thinks they are protecting the consumer.

You know that commercial asking for your dollars and hunger relief where the little kid is trying to eat some gruel covered in flies?  Imagine a kid in downtown Vancouver with cockroaches running over their microwaved pizza!

Trouble is that happens…it’s a reality.

But instead of slowly killing our Industry, just ban all indoor pesticides and get it over with for Pete’s sake.

Then everyone can share in the harboring of roaches, bed bugs, and stored product pests equally.  Rich and poor alike can live in substandard squalor infested with your local insect…

Or better yet, before the PMRA hires anyone they should have a compulsory tour of  Toronto City Housing and a few of the beautiful condos and high rise suites that are knee deep in bed bugs.

Would they then indiscriminately ban everything???

Or maybe look at some Balance….