Pyrethroids are extremely important for protecting agricultural crops and timber from insect damage. They are approved by most, if not all, government regulatory agencies around the world, including the US EPA for use on food and fiber crops.

Pyrethroids provide a wide range of benefits to society by offering growers a proven way to control a broad spectrum of agricultural insect pests that reduce growth and crop yields. Better crop yields mean more food and fiber to millions of Americans and people around the world.

More than 120 crops worldwide can be treated with pyrethroids and regulators have mandated studies that ensure that any resulting traces of chemical found on or in resulting consumer products are at concentrations below human and animal safety thresholds. The thresholds are set to include large margins (often 100-fold) of safety.