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Jul 7, 20192 min read

Are the products you use to keep your home safe, costing you your health?



Cockroaches in Brisbane

We have all used them, those cans that promise cockroaches will be banished from your home, but at what cost?


‘Perhaps unsurprisingly to pest managers, researchers in the US have demonstrated that total release aerosols (cockroach 'bombs') have no impact on German cockroach populations’

this may come as a surprise given what we read on the ‘roach bombs’ peppering our grocery store shelves.


Recently a study suggested that total release aerosols (TRF Products) actually fail to reduce the number of cockroaches when treated and actually led to significant pesticide deposits throughout the home.


With studies suggesting


‘an average increase in insecticide residues of over 600-fold (median 85-fold) for all TRF products’

it becomes clear that TRFs can pose a significant risk of insecticide contamination in homes and reinforces that a thorough understanding of the chemicals and their application is required to ensure a safe removal of the pest from your home. Your best bet if you want to be sure, is to hire a professional.


The BMC study concluded that


‘the high risks of pesticide exposure associated with TRFs combined with their ineffectiveness in controlling German cockroach infestations call into question their utility in the marketplace, especially because similarly priced and much safer bait products are highly effective in the indoor environment’.

It’s not hard to see why booking a pest treatment via a professional is both safer to your health by way of reduced risk to toxicity (and the germs spread by cockroaches) but also a more cost effective option in the long term.


If you have a cockroach problem, take the safe route and call Asset Pest Management today to book your treatment on 0418157926 today.










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