Editor’s note: Siavash Taravati, Ph.D., founder of Pomerix Pest Solutions, announced the launch of www.pomerix.com/pesticides, a platform that allows users to search for more than 144,000 records of products, active ingredients, pests, and sites/commodities in a single search query. In the following article, Taravati shares his experiences in pest control and what led him to create this new search platform.
I have been interested in nature, especially wildlife and insects since I was a little boy. Later on, I also developed a keen interest in coding when I became a teenager. When I went to college, I started learning web development from a good friend of mine and started wondering how can I use coding and web development in biology. Obviously, there are many applications for web development in biology, but what inspired me to create a new pesticide search platform was that I had always found pesticide databases not user-friendly. Federal and state pesticide databases contain the most updated regulatory information; however, they are not always easy to navigate and it is difficult to explore products by their active ingredients, target pests, and target sites or commodities.
What makes my pesticide search platform unique, is its user-friendliness and its ability to quickly search over 144k records of products, active ingredients, pests, and sites/commodities in a single search query. The result will show up as you type and depending on your query, may include product names, active ingredients, pests, and sites/commodities. If you click on any product name, you will end up on a very detailed product page containing the product’s registration number, registration/cancellation dates, alternative names, the signal word, formulation, registrant's name and address, and a complete list of all the approved sites and pests. If you click on a non-product result, you will end up on a list of products matching your query. For example, if you search for “imidacloprid" and click on the Imidacloprid (a.i.) entry, you will be able to see all the registered products containing imidacloprid. Then you can filter the list by “Active only” or “All” products.
Pomerix’s pesticide search platform is available to all PMPs at no charge, and I am planning to update the database at least once a year to reflect regulatory changes. The platform was just recently redesigned and updated in 2023.
The pesticide search platform can be accessed at: www.pomerix.com/pesticides.
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