Modern poultry house and water tower on open farmland at dusk

Biosecurity for poultry, livestock and facilities

Biosecurity is pest and pathogen control at the premise level: poultry and livestock housing, equine stables, kennels and shelters, apiaries, residential yards, feed storage and drinking-water lines. Vegalab Biosecurity applies its multi-layer nano-encapsulation platform to these sites, with a stabilized chlorine dioxide disinfectant powder, single-dose chlorine dioxide tablets and an essential-oil premise concentrate for mites and lice. Solutions are organized by pest or pathogen, by environment and by protocol.

Most biosecurity failures are delivery failures: the disinfectant is spent by organic load, the botanical acaricide evaporates within days, the mite hides where the spray never reaches. Vegalab Biosecurity applies the same multi-layer nano-encapsulation platform used in Crop Science and Beauty Science to animal housing, premises and water systems. The range covers chlorine dioxide disinfection, essential-oil premise treatments and biological controls, backed by a library of the pests, pathogens and environments they are built for.

What does Vegalab Biosecurity cover?

Biosecurity works at the premise level: poultry and livestock housing, equine stables, kennels and shelters, apiaries, residential yards, feed storage and drinking-water lines. Current products are Vetpure Disinfectant, a stabilized chlorine dioxide powder; Vetpure Miticide, an essential-oil premise concentrate for mites and lice in housing; and PureTabs, single-dose chlorine dioxide tablets. Five Crop Science products are being extended to premise and structural use, and two programs, tick control and a crawling insect concentrate, are in development. Every product page states what the current label covers and what is still pending.

How is the Biosecurity section organized?

Products lists what is available now, what is cross-listed from Crop Science, and what is in the pipeline, with a product finder and a dilution calculator built on label rates. Solutions is organized three ways: by pest or pathogen, by environment (broiler house, dairy barn, kennel, backyard), and by protocol (terminal cleandown, water-line sanitation, integrated mite management). Knowledge explains the actives, the delivery technology, species sensitivities and the regulatory rules that govern claims. Where to Buy routes distributors, pest management professionals and trial partners to the right contact.

Why is delivery the variable that matters?

Many premise actives already work in the lab. Geraniol, thymol and chlorine dioxide all have published efficacy data. The field gap is persistence and contact: unencapsulated essential oils typically lose useful activity within a few days, and chlorine dioxide solutions decay unless stabilized. Encapsulation changes the release curve, the evaporation rate and the stability of the active in solution. Our pages report where that is proven, where it is plausible, and where trials are still running.

Diagram comparing unprotected active spent on debris with layered capsules releasing steadily on a surface — Unprotected actives are lost to organic load and evaporation; a layered capsule keeps the active in place and releases it over time.

Which rules govern biosecurity claims?

Pesticide and disinfectant claims in the United States are governed by FIFRA and the product label. Minimum-risk products under FIFRA section 25(b) may not claim control of pests in connection with human disease, and every state sets its own acceptance rules. Vegalab pages name the pests a product is labeled for, describe disease biology only on separate educational pages, and mark premise uses of crop-labeled products as in development until the label amendment and state acceptance are in place.

Key facts

Chlorine dioxide does not chlorinate organic matter the way free chlorine does, so it forms far lower levels of trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids (US EPA, Alternative Disinfectants and Oxidants Guidance Manual, EPA 815-R-99-014, 1999)
Minimum-risk pesticides must use only active ingredients listed in 40 CFR 152.25(f)(1) and inert ingredients listed in 152.25(f)(2) (40 CFR 152.25(f))
Geraniol, peppermint oil, rosemary oil and cottonseed oil are all listed minimum-risk active ingredients (40 CFR 152.25(f)(1))
Poultry red mite infestation costs the European egg industry an estimated EUR 231 million per year (Sigognault Flochlay et al. 2017, Parasit Vectors 10:357)

How our delivery technology applies

The platform builds up to 20 biopolymer layers around an active. For volatile essential oils, the layers slow evaporation and extend the period an active stays on a treated surface. For chlorine dioxide, encapsulation stabilizes the precursor as a dry powder so the oxidant is generated at the point of use and holds in solution for up to one month. Each product page states which of these effects it relies on.

Tell us your species, housing type and pest pressure, and we will map the products and protocols that fit.