Effective Biological Rodenticide

It is important to keep rats and mice out of households and surrounding areas, as well as from orchards and farmlands to prevent transmission of disease and damage to crops and property. Biorat, the biological rodenticide developed by Cuba's LABIOFAM group, has so successfully slowed the spread of disease and economic loss by rat plagues that its use has been extended to various regions of the world.

Besides several territories in Cuba using this rodenticide to diminish infestation, there are twenty countries that have validated its effectiveness by applying it in sanitary campaigns. Cuba has cooperated in this regard with specialists in Nicaragua, where the population was gravely affected by leptospirosis.

The product, biodegradable and harmless to humans, was created by Labiofam experts in 1985 using the Salmonella Enteritidis, Danysz variety, lysine negative, phage type (PT) 6a as active agent. The mono pathogenic product is effective to fight rodents of the Muridae and Cricetidae families.

One of its greatest advantages is that it produces an epizootic. Rats consuming Biorat infect the rest of the colony with their secretions, which increases the mortality rate.

Used for agricultural, urban and livestock objectives, Biorat is an effective alternative to chemical products, now widely rejected for world environmental endangerment.

With only two applications per year the rodenticide controls the vectors...