WINNIPEG — City officials held a last-minute news conference where they confirmed the city’s malathion supply purchased in 2009 is safe to use. Fogging will begin Sunday night, weather permitting.
Ken Nawolsky, the Superintendent of Insect Control, made the announcement late Friday afternoon.
“We got verification after numerous discussions with Health Canada today that as long as we use it in a credited laboratory, with a qualified consultant and we met the guidelines of the World Health Organization, that we could proceed to use malathion,” Nawolsky said.
Fogging is expected to begin at at 9:30 p.m. and run until 6:30 a.m.
For fogging to be authorized in the city, Winnipeg’s Adulticiding Factor Analysis (AFA) levels must be high, the minimum city-wide average trap count must be 25 for two consecutive nights and one or more quadrants of the city are in the range of 100 female adult mosquitoes for fogging to be authorized.