Bioefficacy Assessment for Household Insecticide Product

As you aware that dengue is found in tropical and sub-tropical climates worldwide, mostly in urban and semi-urban areas.The global incidence of dengue has grown dramatically in recent decades and about half of the world's population is now at risk. According to WHO, there are an estimated 100-400 million infections each year.

Thus use of insecticides to kill mosquitoes that spread Zika, dengue, and chikungunya viruses, is one part of an integrated mosquito management program. Insecticides may be used by professionals and by homeowners.

Eurofins Malaysia is helping insecticide manufacturer to conduct the study of mosquito repellent activity by the Malaysian Standards (MS 1497:2007). The sample can be consist of glove, textile or lotion which incorporated with active ingredient of insecticide against the most common mosquito species such as Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus.