A meeting of the EPPO Resistance Panel was held in Vienna at the end of October and attended by the IRAC Chairman, Ralf Nauen. Some of the areas discussed included: Updates on the activities of the 3 RACs The new chapter on comparative resistance risk assessment to be added into the EPPO Standard PP213 (Resistance Risk Analysis) The
After much discussion and debate the final draft of this popular poster is now with the printers and 2000 copies will be produced for distribution by IRAC members. The poster is based on the latest version of the Classifciation scheme (version 6.3) which includes new actives cyenopyrafen and cyflumetofen. Copies of the poster should be
The Public Health Team is in the process of updating and re-issuing the publication “Prevention and management of inspective resistance in vectors and pests of public health importance”. The aim of the manual is to provide the principles of effective insecticide resistance management to decision makers and operators in the field in a pragmatic rather
Company membership of the IRAC Executive remains at 15 but there has been welcomed interest expressed from further companies in Japan. There has also been interest in forming new resistance Country Groups (CGs) in France and Argentina although this is still in the early stages and the type of group and format is still being
The 44th meeting of IRAC International was held at the end of March/beginning of April and consisted of a mixture of concurrent IRAC working group meetings and reviews, a meeting of the Executive Committee, IRAC España and an international session which included presentations from local Spanish experts.