Ensystex have just launched the Soft Bait version of, MUSKIL. Based on an Italian soft pasta recipe this is highly palatable. MUSKIL uniquely blends two actives together, difenacoum and bromadiolone, to create a rodenticide that outperforms other products in the market in terms of speed of kill, palatability, and reduced risk to pets. The small 10 g sachets help reduce the costs of your management programs, allowing up to twice as many bait placements as other products. And, since a 10 g sachet is enough to kill up to 5 rats, MUSKIL really drives your dollar further. Each 9 kg pail contain 900 bait sachets.
Mr Steve Broadbent, Regional Director for Ensystex explains, “The two actives combine together to create a synergistic effect with each dynamically intensifying the effects of the other, to create a more potent solution than either alone; yet at the same time achieving reduced risk to people and pets. Thus, by combining these two actives, we have created a unique product that kills the toughest rodents, including those resistant to anti-coagulant rodenticides.
“Muskil outperforms others in terms of speed of kill. In independent trials, Muskil achieved 100% mortality of mice and rats faster than any other anti-coagulant product, including brodifacoum. Yet, surprisingly, it has a reduced risk profile compared to most other anti-coagulant rodenticides to non-target animals, including dogs. 
“But it not just the combining of two actives together that makes Muskil so revolutionary. Muskil also contains, Fluo-NP Technology™. This works to overcome the often observed rodent behavioural characteristic of bait shyness (neophobia). Commensal rodents are naturally wary of new things, consequently they are usually reticent to feed on a new bait.
“MUSKIL defeats bait shyness by employing fluorescent colour emission technology. MUSKIL uses a fluorescent red dye that absorbs ultraviolet (UV) light. Unlike humans, and many other mammals, rodents only have two visual receptors, one responds to short wavelength light rays, i.e. light in the UV spectrum and the other to medium wavelength light rays. Thus rodents do not have full colour vision.
By adding a dye that absorbs light in the UV range, rodents identify the bait as something that other members of their clan have already inspected or encountered. This means we ‘trick’ them into seeing the MUSKIL as being safe and non-hazardous. Hence less risk of bait shyness and quicker uptake of the bait.
“Muskil’s Fluo-NP Technology contributes to the primary bait acceptance of Muskil, and thereafter the high quality aromatic ingredients and proteins ensure optimal feeding; plus Muskil has been matchlessly formulated to target Australia’s commensal rodent pest species, particularly Rattus rattus and Mus musculus.”
Better Product Stewardship
Mr Broadbent continued by advising, “Given current residue concerns in the market and the APVMA Review of second generation anti-coagulant rodenticides, Muskil’s Fluo-NP Technology also provides for improved traceability. This is because the non-toxic Fluo-NP dye is excreted in the rodent’s droppings. So when you shine a UV Tracking Light onto the droppings, they glow a bright red. You can then trace the rodents movements to locate entry points and harbourages, and ultimately find where rodents are dying.
“Plus the use of a UV light torch allows tracking of bait that has been partly eaten and scattered by rodents, since the actual bait glows a bright red under UV light too.”
Product Details
10 g fluorescent red, pasta-based soft bait in a tea-bag sachet, suitable for mounting in bait stations or nailing bait in place. Product contains no food allergens.
For further information contact Ensystex on 13 35 36 or visit www.Ensystex.com.au.
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