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Citronella
- Thread starter BinkyBun
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ok this is very important.
On sept 2nd 2006 Citronella was BANNED as a repellent along with many other natural products like eucoliptus (sp), tea tree etc under EU law.
We had to have all our range of products reformulated and many well known products like dynamite and many of the interpet range of spays became illegal to sell over night.
By all means use it as this law is BS but the person selling it is breaking the law by selling it as a repellent.
to answer the original question it does work for that purpose, but is still illegal to sell for that purpose. (thats is why you cant get bitter bite /lime bite spray anymore)
On sept 2nd 2006 Citronella was BANNED as a repellent along with many other natural products like eucoliptus (sp), tea tree etc under EU law.
We had to have all our range of products reformulated and many well known products like dynamite and many of the interpet range of spays became illegal to sell over night.
By all means use it as this law is BS but the person selling it is breaking the law by selling it as a repellent.
to answer the original question it does work for that purpose, but is still illegal to sell for that purpose. (thats is why you cant get bitter bite /lime bite spray anymore)
Hmmm just found this report... seems its "banning" is down to cold hard cash.:? They don't deny that it works and is not harmful, but because no firms can afford to put up the £89,000+ to do the testing its banned. But far more dangerous chemicals get approved because those companies have the money to do tests....:roll:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/24/nbook24.xml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/24/nbook24.xml
as we said it is a BS law, but as with all law's we have to obay them,
Notice I didnt say it was illegal to use them as a repellant just illegal to sell them as one.
That law cost us a fortune as we had quite a few products that were on the ban list in stock at the time so we had to dump them all as we were unable to return them
Notice I didnt say it was illegal to use them as a repellant just illegal to sell them as one.
That law cost us a fortune as we had quite a few products that were on the ban list in stock at the time so we had to dump them all as we were unable to return them
as we said it is a BS law, but as with all law's we have to obay them,
Notice I didnt say it was illegal to use them as a repellant just illegal to sell them as one.
That law cost us a fortune as we had quite a few products that were on the ban list in stock at the time so we had to dump them all as we were unable to return them
Thats terrible
its so annoying as these laws always hurt the small businessFriskyClover
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The website I got mine from specifically sadi that under EU law they were not allowed to sell it as a repellent. I love the EU (that's sarcasm)!
Hi Diddeen! Thanks its just on some cables that are tacked to the skirting board. Darcy ignores them but am just worrying in case the girls take interest once they are free roaming thru the flat. Better safe than sorry. I have to say they have ignored the tacked cables on the Kitchen skirting boards which is a good sign but I just don't want to take anything for granted. I don't mind them chewing furniture but wires scare me!!