06 March 2018
Events feature | PPC90 March 2018 In its last year at the East of England Showground, LAMMA took place during 17-18 January. BPCA’s team joined the thousands of agricultural industry specialists – for what turned out to
Events feature| PPC90 March 2018 BPCA hosts events for everyone interested in pest management all around the UK. Regional Forums are completely free to attend, so we can only think of three reasons why you haven’t registered y
Training feature| PPC90 March 2018 BPCA Training Development Manager, Karen Dawes, takes a look at the relative merits of doing more than 'the bare minimum'. As the recommended industry standard, the Level 2 Award in Pest Managemen
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07 March 2018
PPC Live showguide | PPC90 March 2018 See what's happening at PPC Live 2018 and plan your day with our handy showguide quick view. Indoor seminar schedule 9.30 - 10.15 No in-house marketing guru? No problem! – Mark
20 February 2018
Insects Limited and FSS will be hosting the 13th Fumigants & Pheromones Conference 12-14 June 2018 at the Indiana State Museum in downtown Indianapolis, USA. Throughout the past 25 years, this biennial conference has followed the theme
13 February 2018
Mike Ayers, Director of Precision Pest Management and BPCA Executive Board Member shares his thoughts on why it’s now more important than ever, for BPCA members to mobilise and consider the bigger picture of pest control, and join the Be Prot
09 February 2018
The inextricable link between litter and pests is clear. More rubbish, particularly food stuffs, supports the emergence of pests, and rodent infestations particularly. Research from the Animal and Plant Health Agency explored housin
BPCA’s newest member benefit is now open for business. The online PrintShop allows members to personalise quality design templates for information and promotional purposes. A means of improving how, particularly smaller companie
Sam Walker, from the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) will be leading a seminar at PPC Live called "Air Rifles; Safe cleaning and transportation". We catch up with him to see what we should expect. It is estimat
Officially launched at PestEx 2017, the CSN was developed by a group of small and medium BPCA member companies. These were either tired of being let down by smaller sub-contractors, or aggravated at the way some larger companies were treating them th
02 February 2018
A new study by Reading University has identified "the massive extent of L120Q resistance across the whole of central southern England." Co-author Dr Colin Prescott explains that L120Q is the most severe form of rodenticide resistance identified to da
19 January 2018
John Dowling will be leading a seminar at PPC Live called "The end of my Tether – birds of prey and pest control". We catch up with him to see what we should expect. About me and John Dowling Falconry I had been a Bird fanatic since
16 January 2018
Killgerm's Group Head of Technical Department, Matthew, will be leading a seminar at PPC Live called Options for mosquito management in the UK. We catch up with him to see what we should expect. A bit of background on Matthew I am the Head
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has opened consultation of a proposed enforcement regime for the EU Invasive Alien Species Regulation in England and Wales. BPCA members are encouraged to make their views know
Rentokil Initial's Group Science and Innovation Director, Savvas Orthon, will be leading a seminar at PPC Live called Technology vs Technicians – how everybody wins (except the rats). We catch up with him to see what we should expect.
05 January 2018
Natural England are considering charging for statutory assessment and issue of wildlife licences. BPCA has recently written to Natural England expressing our concerns about the delays in issuing licences, and the problems this creates
04 January 2018
Asa Goldschmied, Founder and Director of Proton Environmental, started out in the pest management industry five years ago now. He looks back at what it was like to change careers and his first tricky January in the business. The
02 January 2018
As of 1 January 2019, the BPCA Membership criteria will be amended to state that all Servicing Members must have passed their EN16636 audits. Members must make sure all non-conformities are closed out by the deadline date, or they will be unable
The Irish Pest Control Association (IPCA) Diploma is now an accepted qualification when applying or renewing BPCA Servicing Membership. The membership criteria for all Servicing Member states that “all staff involved in the eradicati
The new Code of Best Practice for The Use of Break Back Traps/Snap Traps has been released by BPCA. BPCA Codes of Best Practice (COBP) are written rules which explain how people working in the pest management industry should behave in
13 December 2017
Under transitional arrangements agreed between the Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRRU) UK, all relevant stakeholder organisations and the Government Oversight Group1 (chaired by the Health and Safety Executive), members of farm ass
20 December 2017
Urban Wildlife's Director of Wildlife, Gary Williams, will be leading a seminar at PPC Live called Actions vs impacts – a pest controller’s quandary. We catch up with him to see what we should expect. As a young bo
19 December 2017
At its quarterly meeting in Brussels on 13 December 2017, CEPA (Confederation of European Pest Management Associations) confirmed the appointment of the consultancy Darwin Associates to take charge of running the CEPA secretariat in Brussels as of 1
