Baygon

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title: "Baygon" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["products-introduced-in-1975", "insecticide-brands", "s.-c.-johnson-&-son-brands", "former-bayer-brands", "2003-mergers-and-acquisitions"] description: "Pesticide brand" topic_path: "general/products-introduced-in-1975" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baygon" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Pesticide brand ::

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Field	Value
logo	Baygonlogo.png
name	Baygon
image	File:Baygon Shelves in Philippines circa 2025.jpg
type	Pesticide
currentowner	S. C. Johnson & Son
introduced	1967
related	Raid
previousowners	Bayer
tagline	Various
caption	Plethora of Baygon products (left and far-right), along with their competitors (center and right)
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| logo = Baygonlogo.png | name = Baygon | image = File:Baygon Shelves in Philippines circa 2025.jpg | type = Pesticide | currentowner = S. C. Johnson & Son | introduced = 1967 | discontinued = | related =Raid | markets = | previousowners = Bayer | trademarkregistrations = | ambassador = | tagline = Various | website = |caption=Plethora of Baygon products (left and far-right), along with their competitors (center and right)|alt=Plethora of Baygon products (left and far-right), along with their competitors (center and right)}}

Baygon is a pesticide brand produced by S. C. Johnson & Son. It is an insecticide used for extermination and control of household pests such as crickets, roaches, ants, carpenter ants, spiders, silverfish and mosquitoes. In 1975, Baygon introduced Australia’s first surface spray for killing cockroaches, ticks and other crawling insects.

Baygon was introduced by the German chemical manufacturer Bayer in 1967. In 2003, Bayer sold the brand to S. C. Johnson & Son. As part of the agreement, the active ingredients used in the pesticides are still manufactured by Bayer and supplied non-exclusively to SC Johnson.

Composition

Baygon products contain the pyrethroids cyfluthrin, transfluthrin, cypermethrin, prallethrin and the carbamate propoxur and organophosphorus chlorpyrifos, as active ingredients. In the concentrations used in consumer product insecticides, pyrethroids may also have insect repellent properties and are generally harmless to human beings in low doses but can harm sensitive individuals. If ingested in sufficient quantities, they can lead to a variety of ill effects, including tremors, dyspnea, and paralysis.

The active biocide in Baygon, prallethrin, while considered effective as a mosquito repellent, has been flagged by the WHO and in other studies, as "highly toxic" to honeybees and fish.

References

References

1. [http://irpages.equitystory.com/Download/Companies/bayer/Annual%20Reports/DE0005752000-JA-2003-EQ-E-00.pdf Bayer AG, Financial Report 2003] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-04-15 (pdf, 2 MB))
2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110516224324/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-97172681.html Bayer sells off Baygon. (The buzz: news, people & events for the informed PMP)], ''Pest Control'', January 1, 2003.
3. [http://www.baygon.com/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=420 Baygon agents], Baygon. Accessed on line December 21, 2007.
4. [http://www.wpro.who.int/hse/pages/householdlist.html FPA List of Household Pesticides] {{webarchive. link. (December 24, 2007 , June 30, 2002. Accessed on line December 21, 2007.)
5. [http://www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/factsheets/pyrethroid.htm Pyrethroids fact sheet] from the Illinois Department of Public Health.
6. [http://www.wpro.who.int/hse/pages/pyrethroids2.html Pyrethroid] {{webarchive. link. (May 17, 2008 , ''Manual of Pesticide Poisoning''. Accessed on line December 21, 2007.)
7. "How to Protect Honeybees from Pesticides". Clemson University.
8. "WHO evaluation of honeybee/fish toxicity 2004, page 17".

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