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Bioallethrin

insecticide trademark

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ2102184 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bioallethrin is an ectoparasiticide. It consists of two of the eight stereoisomers of allethrin in any ratio.

Esbiothrin is a mixture of the same two stereoisomers, but in an approximate ratio of R:S = 1:3.

Esbioallethrin or S-bioallethrin is the pure S-form (that is, the wedge in the structure as shown in the box points down).

The name bioallethrin was a common name approved by the British Standards Institution and published in. BS 1831 has been withdrawn, and the common name has been adopted by ISO. It is also included in and earlier editions.

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“Bioallethrin” enters the record as insecticide trademark. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bioallethrin, insecticide and trademark can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bioallethrin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.