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Newsflash – Pesticide Approved For Widespread Use! Is That Good?

Newsflash – a particular synthetic pesticide called ‘Fipronil-Plus-C’ is now approved for use indoors as well as outdoors.

 

So what? The EPA is making sure all is safe for us so what’s the big deal?

 

Let’s do a little research on Fipronil and see if this is good news or bad news.

 

Fipronil was discovered and developed between 1985 and 1987 by the French chemical and pharmaceutical company Rhone-Poulenc and placed on the market in 1993. There is a US patent owned by BASF and it is produced and distributed by Bayer.

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