Integrated Pest Management

It's like preventative medicine for pest control. Instead of treating a chronic problem by applying chemicals and toxins inside the home or the body, Integrated Pest Management (IPM)is "an approach that primarily involves improving sanitary and structural conditions to deny pests food, water, harborage, and movement, and includes the judicious use of pesticides [only after] an evaluation of need and the hazard to human occupants."
The results of an Environmental Health Perspectives lengthy scientific study with the New York Public Housing Authority are avialble here which talks about the success of IPM.
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