More information about ContraPest ® is available via the SenesTech website ( A bout SenesTech Other states and municipalities are considering similar legislation further accelerating the market for non-lethal, effective pest control alternatives. California enacted legislation in January 2021 prohibiting the use of the four major second generation anticoagulant rodenticides under many circumstances. The state of California accounted for nearly a third of SenesTech's revenue so far this year. Sales revenues for ContraPest ® in 2021 are up over 100 percent from the previous year. We hope to introduce those products in the future as we continue our mission to transform pest control in a safe, sustainable, effective way."ĬontraPest ® is available for use in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Our researchers are working on developing birth control for other pests as well. "As long as ContraPest is being used the rat population will not rebound. It is usually deployed monthly and rats need to consume it on a regular basis for continued effectiveness," said Brandy Pyzyna, SenesTech's Vice President of Research & Regulatory Affairs and one of the scientists who helped develop it. "We call ContraPest ® a milkshake for rats since they love the taste so much. Deployed in traditional bait boxes, ContraPest ® targets the reproductive capabilities of both sexes in rat populations, inducing egg loss in female rats and impairing sperm development in males. Without birth control, their population rebounds to its original level within a few months of using traditional rat control methods.ĬontraPest ® is a liquid formulation that is high in fat, sweet tasting and very attractive to rats, which need to consume approximately 10 percent of their body weight in water each day. The City of Hartford began seeing positive results within two months of deployment.īirth control is essential to controlling rat populations since two base rats, a male and female, can produce generations of rats, resulting in more than 15-thousand rats in just one year. Rats reproduce faster than poisons, traps or any other lethal means that can eliminate them.The city of San Francisco deployed ContraPest® in parks and saw a 65 percent reduction in rat burrows.At the second site, there was a 99 percent reduction in rat activity and 100 percent decline in juvenile rats during the same period. In Washington DC, at one site, there was a 94 percent reduction in rat activity and a 98 percent decline in juvenile rats."Our birth control for rats dramatically amplifies the success of integrated pest management programs and provides a long-term solution to rat control as opposed to a quick fix that doesn't last." At the same time, local governments are also concerned about the environment and want a solution that does not harm other animals, pets or people," said Ken Siegel the CEO of SenesTech, the developer of ContraPest ®. Cities especially have always been plagued with rat problems and they have gotten much worse with the pandemic. " Newton is the latest forward-thinking city to deploy ContraPest ® and we expect more municipalities to follow since the results have been so positive. ContraPest ® has demonstrated unprecedented success in reducing rat populations, often by more than 94 percent, in an environmentally responsible, sustainable manner. It is the one and only EPA approved birth control for rats and is a non-toxic, non-lethal, long-term solution to controlling rat populations made even worse in cities due to the pandemic. Newton, Massachusetts now joins other cities like Hartford, San Francisco, and Washington DC successfully incorporating ContraPest ® into their pest management programs. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Just one year since SenesTech (NASDAQ: SNES) ( the rodent fertility control experts, transitioned from a science-based research company to a commercial one, municipalities around the United States are using its rat contraceptive, ContraPest ® as they work to combat soaring rat populations.
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