Biocides
Biocides are active ingredients that kill undesirable organisms such as pests and pathogens or severely restrict their vital function. They belong to the pesticides category and are used to combat harmful organisms such as insects, fungi, bacteria, rodents and algae. Biocides can be roughly divided into four main groups: Disinfectants, protective agents, pesticides and other products such as antifouling products (fouling protection, for example against algae on boats).
Biocides are also known as non-agricultural pesticides because, unlike crop protection products, they are not used when growing crops in the field. They are used in agriculture and food processing in production facilities, warehouses and stables as cleaning agents and disinfectants. Biocides are essential for maintaining stable hygiene, animal health and food safety.
Terms from the glossary
- Abiotic / Biotic Stress
- Agroecology
- Analytics
- Bees
- Bio-dynamic agriculture
- Biocides
- Biodiversity
- Biologicals
- Biotechnology
- Carcinogenic
- Causality
- Chemophobia
- Cisgenic Plants
- Climate change
- Conventional agriculture
- Correlation
- CRISPR/Cas9
- Digital Agriculture
- Flower strips
- Food Loss
- Food security
- Food Waste
- Gene editing
- Genetic engineering
- Hazard
- Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHP)
- Insect deaths
- Integrated Pest Management
- Limit values
- Metabolites
- Molecular Pharming
- Mutation breeding
- Organic farming
- Organic pesticides
- Pesticide
- Plant breeding
- Plant protection products
- Poison cocktail
- Population growth
- Precautionary principle
- Precision Fermentation
- Regenerative agriculture
- Resilience in the food system
- Resource efficiency
- Risk
- Rural exodus
- Seed treatment, seed dressing
- Species diversity
- Sustainability
- Synthetic pesticides
- Taxonomy
- The Green Revolution
- Transgenic plants
- Urban Farming
- Water scarcity
- Weeds