renaissance for botanical insecticides?

• Published in: Pest management science Vol. 71; no. 12; pp. 1587 - 1590
• Main Author: Isman, Murray B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.12.2015; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: animal health; Animals; Biological Products; biopesticides; botanical insecticides; Commercialization; Environmental regulations; Flowers & plants; Insect Control - legislation & jurisprudence; Insect Control - methods; Insecticides; Jurisdiction; markets; non-food uses; pesticide regulation; Pesticides; Plant Extracts; plant natural products; plant natural products; biopesticides; non-food uses; pesticide regulation
• ISSN: 1526-498X; 1526-4998; 1526-4998
• DOI: 10.1002/ps.4088

Botanical insecticides continue to be a subject of keen interest among the international research community, reflected in the steady growth in scientific publications devoted to the subject. Until very recently though, the translation of that theory to practice, i.e. the commercialisation and adoption of new botanical insecticides in the marketplace, has seriously lagged behind. Strict regulatory regimes, long the bane of small pesticide producers, are beginning to relax some of the data requirements for ‘low‐risk’ pesticide products, facilitating movement of more botanicals into the commercial arena. In this paper I discuss some of the jurisdictions where botanicals are increasingly finding favour, some of the newer botanical insecticides in the plant and animal health arsenal and some of the specific sectors where botanicals are most likely to compete effectively with other types of insecticidal product. © 2015 Society of Chemical Industry