What is Biocide and Biocidal Product? Also, what is the place of pesticides/insecticides in these products?
Firstly, what is
biocide?
- Biocides are chemicals that form a mixture of one
or more active substances, which control or kill the microorganisms containing
bacteria, fungi, algae, mold or yeast. Biocides guarantee the active
performance of chemical products and production processes. The use of biocides
is quite wide. For example, it is used in many fields such as cosmetics
industry, detergent industry, paint industry, pharmaceutical production, and
plastic industry.
Returning to our
main subject, what is the biocidal product and what is the place of pesticides
in these products?
Biocidal products derived from biocides occupy a
large place in our lives as a word. Many products we use are in the biocidal
product class.
- Biocidal products, thanks to the active substance
or substances they contain, have a chemical or biological effect on
microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, cockroaches, ticks,
houseflies, mosquitoes, rodents such as mice and rats, which are considered
harmful. In this way, biocidal products can restrict, remove, make harmless or
destroy the movement of harmful organisms. Therefore, they are products that
are used directly or indirectly in human or animal hygiene for the control of
harmful organisms.
It is also defined by the European Union as follows:
Substances and preparations containing one or more active substances (as in
contact with the consumer) which are used to destroy harmful organisms by
chemical or biological means, to disrupt their structure, to prevent or combat
damage caused by harmful organisms. Biocidal products are necessary for the
prevention of harmful organisms and for the destruction of harmful, to increase
the quality of life; biocidal products mostly meet civil needs. These civil
needs cover insecticides that are used for pest control. So, biocidal products
that are used for pest control as follows:
• Rodenticides (Products used for the control of
mice, rats or rodents)
• Molluscicides (Products used against mollusks)
• İnsecticides (Products used against insects/pests)