Beyond Mosquitoes : Essential Oils Toxicity and Repellency Against Insect Pests: an Overview
Sylvain Mercier, M. Sc., Chemist If you have already been interested in the anti-mosquito action of essential oils, you probably already know the potential effectiveness of citronella as a repellent against these insects that disturb our beautiful summer evenings. Different insects can be vectors of serious diseases such as Aedes sp. which carries dengue or […]
Green, natural and organic
Benoit Roger Ph. D. In a previous blog, we talked about naturals vs. synthetics and we saw that the question is a bit trickier than it seems. In a few words, some consider (and we’re a part of them) that natural compounds are just those forged by nature or spontaneously formed during the extraction process […]
Publication of a Method for Analysis of Volatile Compounds Present in the Plant Material
Laurie Caron – Summary of articles During my graduate studies in natural products chemistry at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC), I had the opportunity to publish a few articles related to the topic of my research. Today, I present the first of them, it deals with a new method for analysis of volatile […]