Environmental and Health Impacts of the Mosquito Control Agent Agnique
Report into the impacts of the monomolecular surface film agnique as a measure to exclude mosquitoes from Aotearoa.
Pātiki and Waharua Kōpito patterns
About this item
- Issue date:
- 5 September 2023
- Status:
- Current
- Corporate Author:
- Manatū Hauora - Ministry of Health
- Document date:
- 1 June 2005
- Type:
- Commissioned report, Report, Research, Resource
- Topic:
- Environmental health
- Copyright status:
© Crown Copyright, Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Some species of mosquitoes have the potential to vector serious mammalian disease. The Ministry of Health is responsible for measures to attempt to exclude mosquitoes from arriving in New Zealand on vessels or risk goods.
The Ministry is therefore interested in control technologies for use in mosquito exclusion and control programmes and in 2005 the Ministry of Health commissioned a report on the environmental and health impacts of a mosquito control agent: Agnique, a monomolecular surface film.
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Date of publication: 02 June 2005, updated October 2005.