The Rodenticide Resistance Action Committee (RRAC) is a working group within the framework of CropLife International. Participating companies include: Bayer CropScience, BASF, LiphaTech S. A., PelGar, Rentokil Initial, Syngenta and Zapi.
Senior technical specialists, with specific expertise in rodenticides, represent their companies on this committee.
RRAC Guidelines on anticoagulant rodenticide resistance management: this document provides guidance to advisors, national authorities, professionals, practitioners and others on the nature of anticoagulant resistance in rodents, the identification of anticoagulant resistance, strategies for rodenticide application that will avoid the development of resistance and the management of resistance where it occurs.
Contents
– Classification and history of rodenticide compounds
– Mode of action of anticoagulant rodenticides, resistance mechanisms, and resistance mutations
– Testing for resistance Integrated pest management for rodent control
– Preventing resistance
– Combatting resistance
– Alternatives to anticoagulants: chemicals and other control techniques
– Resistance and ecotoxicology
– Definitions
– Other sources of rodenticide resistance management advice and information
– Laboratories performing resistance tests in rats and mice
– Checklist for rodenticide users experiencing difficulties
– Maps of resistance areas of the Norway rat
