HOW EFFECTIVE IS A SOIL TREATMENT AND HOW LONG WILL A TERMITE SOIL TREATMENT LAST?
A. Most professional pest control operators (PCO) are smart enough to approach these waters very carefully. A PCO should not make any specific claims with respect to product effectiveness and/or longevity which cannot be supported by official scientific evidence’ which has been published by the official scientific community.’ A PCO can, however, based solely on his company’s experience, make comments regarding a product or product comparisons: nothing wrong with that. Published industry research evidence,’ can be used to infer certain things with respect to product effectiveness and/or longevity, however, you should know and remember that there is a difference between what is published by the official scientific community’ and that which is published as industry research evidence.’ Do not assume anything! If a pesticide manufacturer advertisement says that their product may last “up to 10 years,” what has the manufacturer actually told you? Nothing! Words have meaning…pay attention!
