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 This special issue of Pest+ brings you exclusive reports from NPTA's PestTech 2011, held on 2 November at the National Motorcycle Museum near Coventry.
Watch out for further coverage in the November/December edition
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 Coming just in time for a launch at PestTech, DuPont Advion Ant Gel is now authorised for sale and use in the UK. It is available from Killgerm Chemicals for use by pest management professionals.
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| * * * Sponsored news from Lodi-UK * * * |
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 New to the UK market and on show at PestTech was Black Pearl – a new mouse bait formulation containing micro-encapsulated alphachloralose.
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PestTech 2011 – another cracking day
Held on 2 November at its usual venue of the National Motorcycle Museum, professional pest controllers from up and down the country descended upon PestTech in their hundreds.
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Incredible! Dead heat for Pest 2011 Best Product
Voted for by readers of Pest publications, it was quite incredible that there was a dead heat for the winner of this year’s Pest Best Product of the Year award. In fact, in the Pest office we had to undertake several re-counts of the votes to check all was totally correct.
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Bed bug detection dog myths busted
There is a lot of comment on the accuracy, or otherwise, of bed bug detection dogs doing the rounds of the global pest management industry at present. Adam Juson’s workshop at PestTech 2011 on 2 November helped sort out fact from fiction.
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Europe-wide pest control service standard debated
Does the European pest control service industry need a voluntary standard or would a mandatory system serve it better? That was the subject for the 2011 Pest Control News Workshop held at PestTech on 2 November.
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New members welcomed into the Hall of Fame
Six well-known and well-respected industry leaders were inducted into the Pest Control News Hall of Fame at the dinner immediately following PestTech 2011 on 2 November.
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Olympic hopefuls demonstrate importance of teamwork The visitors and exhibitors who managed to find time to attend the Professional Women in Pest Management (PWIPM) gathering at PestTech were rewarded with an exciting teambuilding exercise.
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RAMPS UK holds its first AGM at PestTech
RAMPS UK, the Register of Metallic Phosphide Schemes, held its first Annual General Meeting (AGM) during PestTech.
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Other events - gulls, bees, flies and CRRU
There were plenty of other events at PestTech with open sessions on feral bees, fly control on the farm and seagull legislation, whilst CRRU held a special wildlife aware meeting.
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