Communiquá© following successful IPHPW event issued

In their post-event communiquá©, the organisers declared that the outcome of the workshop will complement on-going international public health efforts. Delegates agreed to work towards a better framework for conducting global joint reviews of new public health pesticide products.

The workshop confirmed the need for harmonization of regulatory review processes and data requirements for public health pest control tools among the different schemes operating internationally. This would facilitate the development and approval of these tools.

Participants identified the following next steps to advance the important work of increasing the availability of appropriate pesticides to improve public health around the world by:

• communicating the content and findings of this Workshop to a broader audience, initially by convening a meeting of regulators from developing countries;
• conducting a test case for global review of new public health pesticide products;
• initiating discussions with world regulatory authorities and WHO on regulatory review processes and data requirements specific to public health pesticides.

Full details on the IPHPW website

Further malaria developments

Virtually coinciding with the workshop came announcements of two three-year pesticide development programmes with Syngenta and Bayer Crop Science funded by the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC). Both companies will be reviewing their back collections of chemicals for potential products.

In addition, some weeks earlier (20 April 2009) Number 10 Downing Street was used as the backdrop for the UK launch of Malaria No More.

Full details are in Issue 3 of Pest magazine – or can be read by clicking here.

Part of the organising committee.
L-R: Kevin Sweeney & Lois Rossi (EPA) with
Graham Jewkes (CIEH)

Delegates had ample time to debate
the way forward 

Outside Number 10 temporarily swathed in a bed net. L-R: Andy Murray, David Beckham, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown
and Denise Lewis