| Pests
Rodent Control on Farms 2018 Rodenticide
Compliance for 11
Assurance Schemes
The Busters Group’s is now offering a new course called
Rodent Control on Farms to meet the changes in UK law -
this LANTRA accredited training can be delivered at our
centre in Kings Norton, Birmingham or at your premises.
Eleven assurance schemes with combined memberships
of 95,000 farm businesses will be compliant with the UK
Rodenticide Stewardship Regime for 2018.
ur new
Rodenticides
training course
meets the
changes in law for
the United
Kingdom regarding the purchase
and use of Rodenticides. We are
one of a very few in England who
are able to deliver these one-day
LANTRA certificated course,
Rodent control on Farms.
This course will train your staff
or yourself in best practice for
preventative controls, as well as
raising awareness to monitor
activity and spot the first signs to
take action.
Gain a Certificate from an
approved training programme and
awarding organisation confirming
professional competence.
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From April 2017 new
regulations for buying and using
rodenticides, which means non-
proffesionals, will now need a
certificate of competence.
SAVE TIME by learning how to
keep rodent numbers down on
your property – and even how to
eliminate them.
SAVE MONEY on wasted bait
and avoid the thousands of
pounds worth of damage rodents
cause to stock, such as food
products, grain, meal and bales.
REDUCE RISK to staff, yourself
and to public health.
Ring now on 01564 829752 or
e: [email protected]
Price is £85.00 per person plus
VAT (Inc Refreshments)
hey are:
• AIC’s Trade
Assurance
Scheme for
Combinable Crops
British Egg
Industry Council’ s Lion code
• Duck Assurance Scheme
• Farm Assured Welsh Livestock
• Laid in Britain
• Northern Ireland Beef & Lamb
Farm Quality Assurance Northern
Ireland Farm Quality Assured
Cereals Quality British Turkey
• Quality Meat Scotland
• Red Tractor Farm Assurance
• Scottish Quality Crops
Farmers presenting their
membership document at sales
outlets as proof of competence will
continue to be able to purchase
stewardship-label professional
rodenticides from 1 January
onwards. The audit standards of
all 11 assurance schemes have
been verified for compliance with
stewardship conditions and the
CRRU UK Code of Best Practice,
which broadly require a systematic
approach to rodent pest control,
with documentation and regular
independent audit procedures.
In parallel, sellers of
professional use rodenticides to
pest controllers, farmers and
gamekeepers are required by 31
December to have registered for a
stewardship point-of- sale audit.
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Administered by BASIS
Registration, this requires
authorisation holders (i.e.
rodenticide manufacturers) to
ensure UK sellers of their
professional use products pass
the audit and maintain this
standard for the future.
Farmers outside the approved
schemes have three rodenticide
use options: 1) Take an approved
training course* and show the
certificate when purchasing
rodenticide. 2) Employ a certified
professional pest controller. 3) Use
rodenticide products authorised
for amateur use.
*http://www.thinkwildlife.org/list-of-
training-and-certification/
The Campaign for Responsible
Rodenticide Use UK reports to
HSE and other Government
Departments on rodenticide
stewardship implementation.
CRRU chairman Dr Alan Buckle
says this combination of farm
assurance and point-of-sale
control helps ensure the entire
supply chain is correctly
implementing stewardship
measures.
“This will make a significant
contribution to enabling continued
access by competent users to
professional use rodenticides for
the future,” he emphasises.
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