BY REPELLING, CONTROLLING OR ELIMINATING HARMFUL ORGANISMS
Benefits
For millennia mankind has sought protection against pests and other organisms which threaten our health, our food, our environment and the places in which we live and work. Our principal defences against these agents of disease and destruction are known as ‘biocides’.
Early biocides included natural pyrethrum (from Chrysanthemum flowers), bitumen, camphor, vinegar and rose water. In the modern definition, a biocide is a formulation containing one or more active substances that will – at very small doses – repel, control or destroy harmful organisms.
Biocides are essential in our everyday lives for the purposes of prevention and protection. They are subject to their own set of regulations and should not be confused with medicinal drugs, used to treat the human body, or with plant protection products, used directly on crops.
Biocides have numerous applications with enormous benefits for all of us.
