SenesTech, Inc., (SNES), the rodent fertility control experts, announced that its new Elevate Bait System with ContraPest, the only EPA registered birth control for both male and female rats, is available for sale in all fifty states, including California, following approval of the system by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR). The new bait system specifically targets roof rats, a common pest in agricultural settings, and is now available online at https://contrapeststore.com/products/contrapest-elevate-bait-system.
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“The Elevate Bait System with ContraPest began shipping to states other than California a month ago and is seeing rapid adoption in the agricultural space. Significant interest in Elevate has been building up from customers in California – interest that we can now turn into orders with the recent CDPR approval,” said Ken Siegel, SenesTech‘s CEO.
The Elevate Bait System is easily deployed indoors above ground with multiple options for mounting in the rafters of barns, granaries, storage, manufacturing facilities, attics, and lofts. It can be used above ground wherever roof rats are feeding, transiting, or hiding indoors. The suspended bait station is easily accessible by rats, but out of the way of people, pets, livestock, and food storage areas.
While the Elevate Bait System is a novel way to deploy, it is still the same successful, fertility control solution, ContraPest, that reduces rat populations and stops infestations before they start. ContraPest is a sweet, fatty liquid formula that rats love and that has no unfavorable impacts to other populations. It works both alone as well as with other integrated pest management methods where a 90 percent reduction in rat pest populations has been achieved.
SenesTech partnered with livestock production biosecurity and sanitation experts Agrecom Inc (agrecom.net) in the development testing and deployment of the Elevate system. “By partnering with a forward-thinking company like SenesTech we were able to solve a challenging situation with one of our egg layer customers, as well as help bring to market a game changing product for rodent control,” said Stuart Rawling, Agrecom CEO. “Roof rats pose a real threat to food security and the beauty of the new Elevate Bait System is that we’re targeting these rats where they live and breed. Not only do these rats stay in the upper part of buildings, but so does this suspended bait system.”