Baygon
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| Product type | Pesticide |
|---|---|
| Owner | S. C. Johnson & Son |
| Introduced | 1967 |
| Related brands | Raid |
| Previous owners | Bayer |
| Tagline | Various |
Baygon is a pesticide brand produced by S. C. Johnson & Son. It is an insecticide used for extermination and control of household pests such as crickets, roaches, ants, carpenter ants, spiders, silverfish and mosquitoes. In 1975, Baygon introduced Australia’s first surface spray for killing cockroaches, ticks and other crawling insects.
Baygon was introduced by the German chemical manufacturer Bayer in 1967. In 2003, Bayer sold the brand to S. C. Johnson & Son. As part of the agreement, the active ingredients used in the pesticides are still manufactured by Bayer and supplied non-exclusively to SC Johnson.[1][2]
Composition
Baygon products contain the pyrethroids cyfluthrin, transfluthrin, cypermethrin, prallethrin and the carbamate propoxur and organophosphorus chlorpyrifos, as active ingredients.[3][4] In the concentrations used in consumer product insecticides, pyrethroids may also have insect repellent properties and are generally harmless to human beings in low doses but can harm sensitive individuals.[5] If ingested in sufficient quantities, they can lead to a variety of ill effects, including tremors, dyspnea, and paralysis.[6]
The active biocide in Baygon, prallethrin, while considered effective as a mosquito repellent, has been flagged by the WHO and in other studies, as "highly toxic" to honeybees and fish.[7][8]
References
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- ^ Bayer AG, Financial Report 2003 Script error: No such module "webarchive". (pdf, 2 MB)
- ^ Bayer sells off Baygon. (The buzz: news, people & events for the informed PMP), Pest Control, January 1, 2003.
- ^ Baygon agents, Baygon. Accessed on line December 21, 2007.
- ^ FPA List of Household Pesticides Script error: No such module "webarchive"., June 30, 2002. Accessed on line December 21, 2007.
- ^ Pyrethroids fact sheet from the Illinois Department of Public Health.
- ^ Pyrethroid Script error: No such module "webarchive"., Manual of Pesticide Poisoning. Accessed on line December 21, 2007.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."How to Protect Honeybees from Pesticides" (PDF). Clemson University. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."WHO evaluation of honeybee/fish toxicity 2004, page 17" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-08-24. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
External links
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