Jun 21 – Canada: Garlic spray all the buzz in war on mosquitoes (PMRA)

The Edmonton sun discusses new PMRA registrations:

It might generate the biggest buzz among retail mosquito-control products.

That’s what Joel Gosselin is hoping, as his Winnipeg company touts a garlic-heavy repellent called Mosquito Barrier that has brought at least a sweet early smell of success.

The product has become the first such control product registered under a new organics classification by Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency, and the so-called “natural” substance – initially developed years ago in the U.S. – has been on some store shelves north of the border for the past couple of weeks.

“This opens up a whole new ball game, where people can use something natural,” Gosselin, president of Viceroy Distributors, told Sun Media yesterday of its potential for warding off Winnipeg’s nuisance bloodsuckers.

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