Raid (bug spray)
Raid is an international brand of SC Johnson & Son for various insect repellant products. Raid is one of the best-selling insecticide products worldwide.
The range includes various sprays against flying and crawling insects, bait boxes, moth paper, products against food pests, flycatchers and electric vaporizers against mosquitoes and insects.
history
In the early 1950s, the Böhme Fettchemie company brought the Paral brand onto the German market. In 1963 the Paral brand was sold to the Thompson Group ; this has been owned by the US company SC Johnson & Son since 1992 . Since 2007, SC Johnson & Son has renamed the Paral brand to Raid as part of its international standards and improved international recognition value .
The old Austrian brand tus was also taken over, in 2013 the products in Austria were still called tus / Raid, since 2014 only Raid. The old advertising slogan "Tus puts an end to annoying insects" became a phrase in Austria .
Active ingredients
The Paral powder originally contained dangerous and questionable ingredients such as DDT and lindane . Nowadays, modern pyrethroids ( prallethrin , phenothrin ) are included instead . Pyrethroids act as contact poisons in insects, irreversibly blocking the voltage-dependent sodium channels in the nerve membranes so that they cannot be closed again from the open state. Blocking the sodium channels leads to spastic paralysis of the insects and a rapid immobilizing effect that occurs before death and is known as " knockdown ". Pyrethroids should be used extremely restrictively indoors. Aquariums, terrariums or animal cages should be covered or removed before use.
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Individual evidence
- ^ End with horror , Die Handelszeitung 01/14 of January 23, 2014 p. 39
- ↑ Good advertising slogans, some of which are still used