Dear Professional Rodenticide User, Changes to Certification Needed When Buying Professional Rodenticides We are writing at a time for urgent action; as regulation changes coming into effect from 1 January 2026 necessitate new enhanced proof of competence requirements for everyone buying or using professional rodenticides. From 2026 farm...
The Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRRU UK) has released a new Q&A document to clarify upcoming proof of competence requirements for purchasing and using professional-use rodenticides. This guide, aimed at supporting farmers, gamekeepers, and professional pest controllers, offers tailored advice to each group as...
The Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRRU) has released its latest Code of Best Practice (CoBP), reflecting forthcoming legal requirements on professional rodenticide application and supporting the safe and effective rodent pest management delivered by gamekeepers, farmers and pest control technicians. Key revisions to the fourth...
Guidance has been tightened for all users of professional rodenticides, including gamekeepers, with the withdrawal of the ‘open area’ pattern of use for second generation anti-coagulant rodenticides (SGARs), from the 4th of July 2024. Reflecting these changes, the CRRU Code of Best Practice and rodenticide...
The Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use UK’s new chairperson is Nigel Cheeseright. Following a two-month handover from Dr Alan Buckle, who is retiring after two decades in the role, he begins a three-year term on 1 May.From 2010 to 2021 with Rentokil Initial as head...
Alan retires from his CRRU role at the end of April 2024, with a stellar career that has shaped the pest management industry for just over half a century. Many of our readers will be familiar with Alan as the Chair and driving force of...
In readiness for all anticoagulant rodenticide purchases being restricted July onwards to their use inside and around buildings only, the latest UK Rodenticide Stewardship annual report includes for the first time an explanation specific to rodent pest control of what constitutes a ‘building’. Summarised from guidance...
The Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRRU) UK has monitored barn owl breeding in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Partnership (WCP) every year since 2011. Over the study’s 12 years, the percentage of successful nests ranged between 23.2% in 2013 and 64.5% in 2014, with...
Press Release: Tuesday 2 January 2024 All three user groups of second generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) covered by the UK Rodenticide Stewardship Regime – pest controllers, gamekeepers and farmers – have two years to prepare for a significant change in access to such products. Despite resistance from...
A new chairperson is being recruited by the Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use to take up the role early next year on retirement of Dr Alan Buckle, chairman since CRRU’s inception in 2004. CRRU’s ultimate objective is to reduce the incidence of rodenticide residues in barns...