Report of the fourteenth WHOPES working group meeting: WHO/HQ, Geneva, 11-15 April 2011
Review of spinosad® EC, lifenet® LN, magnetTM® LN, royal sentry® LN, yahe® LN
Overview
The fourteenth meeting of the WHOPES Working Group, an advisory group to the WHO Pesticide Evaluation Scheme (WHOPES), was convened at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, from 11 to 15 April 2011.
The objective of the meeting was to review Spinosad EC (Clarke Mosquito Control, USA) for mosquito larviciding; and LifeNet® (Bayer CropScience, France) for malaria prevention and control. The meeting also assessed the regeneration, wash resistance and efficacy of MAGNetTM LN (VKA Polymers, India), Royal Sentry® LN (Disease Control Technologies, USA) and Yahe® LN (Fujian Yamei Industry, China) as part of the requirements for extending WHO specifications to these products.
The meeting also addressed issues and challenges related to procedures, criteria and requirements for testing and evaluation of public health pesticides, and made appropriate recommendations.
The meeting was attended by 11 scientists (see Annex I: List of participants). Professor Dr Marc Coosemans was appointed as Chairman and Dr John Gimnig as Rapporteur. The meeting was convened in plenary and group sessions, in which the reports of the WHOPES supervised trials and relevant published literature and unpublished reports were reviewed and discussed (see Annex II: References). Recommendations on the use of the above- mentioned products were made.