The Hubei Provincial Health and Epidemic Prevention Department recently revealed that Luowei Molluscide, a new botanical drug developed by the province specifically for blood control and snail killing, has recently received a "market pass" issued by the Ministry of Agriculture. ”——Temporary Pesticide Registration Certificate. This new "nemesis" of schistosomiasis has found a new environmentally friendly way to control schistosomiasis.
Luowei molluscicide was developed by Hubei Jinhaichao Technology Co., Ltd. in collaboration with more than ten scientific research institutes at home and abroad, which took 5 years to complete. The project is included in the provincial science and technology research plan, major disease projects and key schistosomiasis prevention research projects. Scientific researchers successfully isolated and extracted a pentacyclic triterpenoid alkaloid with good molluscicidal activity from cheap tea seed cakes that are rich in resources in my country, and developed this new plant molluscicide. Its core technology has been approved by the National Invention patent.
Experts believe that compared with traditional chemical molluscicides, this kind of molluscicide powder is highly efficient, low-toxic, cheap, environmentally friendly and easy to use, and has a very broad market prospect.