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22 March 2023

BASF announces phaseout of its difenacoum range

PRESS RELEASE

Pest control product manufacturer and distributor BASF has announced the withdrawal of its difenacoum rodenticide range including Neosorexa® Gold, Neosorexa® Gold Ratpacks, Neosorexa® Bait Blocks, and Sorexa® D products later this year. 

BASFphasesoutdifenacoum

Anthony O’Hare, Regional Business Manager for BASF’s Professional & Specialty Solutions, said: “At BASF we are committed to innovate to address our customers’ needs for effective and sustainable solutions to support their daily work best.

"With the recent additions of Storm Ultra and Selontra to our product portfolio, we offer a complementary range of rodenticides addressing the needs for fast, highly efficient, resistance-breaking and sustainable rodent control solutions.

“Going forward we will focus on further developing our offer around the most potent anticoagulant flocoumafen, and the highly effective alternative to anticoagulants, cholecalciferol. We decided to not renew difenacoum and difenacoum-based products under the BPR.”

Accordingly, BASF’s difenacoum-based products will be phased-out in Europe in 2023 as shown in the table below.

Phase-out timelines* per product in the UK:

Product Last sale date  Last use & disposal
Neosorexa® Gold   19 August 2023  15 February 2024
Neosorexa® Gold Ratpacks  19 August 2023   15 February 2024
Neosorexa® Bait Blocks***  6 November 2023    5 May 2024
Sorexa® D   13 August 2023  9 February 2024

If you have any concerns about the withdrawal of products, get in touch with your product supplier. 

If you're a BPCA member and have a question, get in touch with our technical team.

technical@bpca.org.uk

Source: BASF press release

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