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Label & SDS

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Registration information

  • U.S. EPA Registration number: 64405-1
  • U.S. EPA Status: ACTIVE

Description

'Bora-care' is an algaecide, fungicide, insecticide, and miticide. Its Federal EPA registration number is: 64405-1. It was originally approved by EPA on 12 Feb 1991. It has a 'Caution' signal word. It has the following active ingredients: Boron sodium oxide (B8Na2O13), tetrahydrate (12280-03-4). It's approved for 35 sites including basements, commercial/institutional/industrial buildings, construction materials, domestic dwellings, farm buildings, food processing plants, garages, hospital premises, hotels, and household premises. It is also approved for 18 pests and pest groups including but not limited to algae, ambrosia beetles, anobiid beetles, brown rot, carpenter ants, dampwood termites, dry rot, drywood termites, formosan termite, and longhorned beetles.

Original registration date:

  • 12 Feb 1991

Cancellation date:

  • n/a

Alternative names:

  • BORA-CAREActive

Registrant:

  • NISUS CORPORATION
    Attn: Regulatory Affairs
  • Address:
    100 Nisus Drive
    Rockford, TN 37853

Active ingredients:

  • Boron sodium oxide (b8na2o13), tetrahydrate (12280-03-4) 40%
  • Other ingredients 60%

Signal word:

  • Caution

Product type:

  • Algaecide
  • Fungicide
  • Insecticide
  • Miticide

Formulation:

  • Soluble Concentrate

Registered target pests:

  • Algae
  • Ambrosia beetles
  • Anobiid beetles
  • Brown rot
  • Carpenter ants
  • Dampwood termites
  • Dry rot
  • Drywood termites
  • Formosan termite
  • Longhorned beetles
  • Lyctid beetles
  • No pest
  • Old house borer
  • Powderpost beetles
  • Subterranean termites
  • White rot of wood
  • Wood boring insects
  • Wood rot/decay fungi

Registered target sites:

  • Basements
  • Commercial/institutional/industrial buildings (indoor inedible)
  • Construction materials
  • Domestic dwellings (indoor)
  • Domestic dwellings (outdoor)
  • Farm buildings
  • Food processing plants (indoor inedible)
  • Garages
  • Hospital premises
  • Hotels (indoor)
  • Household premises
  • Institutions (indoor inedible)
  • Livestock stables (enclosed premise treatment)
  • Logs (structural) (soil contact nonfumigation treatment)
  • Pet kennels (enclosed premise treatment)
  • Restaurants (indoor inedible)
  • Roofs (wood)
  • Schools (indoor inedible)
  • Supermarkets (indoor inedible)
  • Timbers (structural) (soil contact nonfumigation treatment)
  • Trailers (empty)
  • Trucks (feed/food-empty)
  • Warehouses (indoor inedible)
  • Wood (construction) (soil contact non-fumigation treatment)
  • Wood (soil contact nonfumigation treatment)
  • Wood beams (soil contact nonfumigation treatment)
  • Wood decks (soil contact nonfumigation treatment)
  • Wood fences (soil contact nonfumigation treatment)
  • Wood flooring (soil contact nonfumigation treatment)
  • Wood paneling
  • Wood pilings (soil contact nonfumigation treatment)
  • Wood siding (soil contact nonfumigation treatment)
  • Wood structural parts (soil contact nonfumigation treatment)
  • Wood structures (soil contact nonfumigation treatment)
  • Woodwork (exterior) (soil contact nonfumigation treatment)