Insecticides

Insecticide Treated Fabrics

Insecticide treated net method is now recognized as a significant vector control strategy for malaria. Deployment of treated fabric easily wards off people from mosquito bites of endophilic and endophagic mosquitoes. Its efficiency improves when its use coincides with the biting time of the mosquitoes and the sleeping time of the people who use them. It has an added benefit for protection against exophilic mosquitoes when used outside. There are also guarantee benefits in providing overall personal defense from other domestic haematophagous insects. This vector control tool is environmental as it minimizes consumption of insecticides in the control program. This fabric is at present available in two forms, one requires regular handling with insecticides and the other is long-lasting insecticide treated nets which does not require any treatment.

Names of treated fabrics:

BioGents treated insecticide or repellent treated textiles according to established protocols, standards and guidelines or develops new or customized procedures according to the exact need of the people. Obviously, all test results are treated in severe confidence. Enclose tests of repellent-treated textiles are swift and cost-effective. Confine tests are the quick and cost-effective way establish the mosquito-repelling qualities of treated textiles. They are perfect for product development. The tests follow the acknowledged procedure for coop up tests of repellents. For such test, volunteers cover a defined part of their forearms with the textiles and then there it to hungry mosquitoes in cage.

Treated fabrics and surfaces:

The effectiveness of insecticide treated fabric like bed nets, canvas or surfaces is usually studied in standardized cone bioassays with insecticide prone strains of the malaria mosquito. The process is endorsed by the WHO and other international and national organizations. The assessment of insecticides with extra repellent properties where uncovered mosquitoes might spend more time resting on the cone and not on the treated surface are done with these fabrics. The wire-ball test like wrapping the fabric around a wire frame and introducing mosquitoes into this ball, cylinder tests like the inside of a test cylinder are covered with the textile and other methods are often applied. A special case is textiles and membranes that slow down mosquito bites purely through their substantial properties. Such fabric offers quick and meaningful tests for the assessment of these fabrics.

Insecticides