Structure
The group was founded in 1992. It comprises more than 100 scientists from about 30 countries of all continents.
Activities
The WG “Integrated Protection of Stored Products” organizes bi-annual meetings and activities related with co-ordination, co-operations and networking (COST Actions, EUREKA, ERA NET, International Working Conference of Stored Product Protection, International Congress of Entomology, European Congress of Entomology, International Plant Protection Conference, etc.)
The WG meets to discuss new findings regarding the following topics:
- Biology of stored product pests
- Methods of pest prevention during storage, transportation and handling
- Semiochemicals, traps and other methods to detect stored product pests
- All aspects of biological control
- Prevention of microflora infection and development of mycotoxins
- Physical, chemical and other techniques for stored product pest control
- Wood-boring, urban, quarantine and museum pests
- Futurology: overviews and future trends on all aspects of storage pest control
Achievements
The proceedings of the group meetings were published in the IOBC-WPRS Bulletins:
Keywords
stored products, Food industries, pests, natural enemies, prevention, monitoring, IPM, control, food safety, urban entomology
Aim
The WG promotes the use of sustainable, environmental safe economically feasible socially acceptable control-methods of pests and diseases of stored products and food industries. The general objectives of the WG are the communication of research findings and the promotion of methods for integrated goods protection that help to reduce the use of pesticides and to avoid risks to the user, to the consumer as well as to the environment.