For 70 years, pest control has meant poison in your home.
We're ending that.
Every conventional spray on the shelf works the same way: it attacks the nervous system. Neurotoxins. The same class of chemistry, generation after generation, sprayed where your kids crawl, your pets sleep, and your food is made — because somewhere along the way, the chemistry stopped being questioned. “It works” became a good enough reason to stop asking “is it safe?”
We didn't accept that answer.
“The majority of pesticides sold in the U.S. are neurotoxic.”
They work by disrupting the nervous system — inhibiting acetylcholinesterase, jamming sodium channels, or blocking GABA. And the body of independent research linking that chemistry to serious risks for human health and development keeps growing.
Applied Science Labs exists to replace neurotoxin-based pest control with engineered, science-backed compounds that kill mechanically — not chemically. No nervous-system poisons. No compromise on power.
We kill pests with physics,
not poison.
And here's what the incumbents don't like to talk about: resistance. Neurotoxins lose their edge every single generation as bugs adapt — it's why the sprays keep getting stronger while working worse. A mechanical kill is different. There is no known resistance to it, because there's no nerve pathway to adapt around.
You can't evolve past physics.
But better products aren't enough. The reason neurotoxins still dominate isn't that they're better — it's that the rules were written for them, decades ago, before we knew what we know now. So we're not just building a company. We're fighting to change national pest-control regulation itself — to make proof and safety the standard every product must meet, not the exception a few of us choose.
That's the mission. Safer homes. Smarter science. And a rulebook that finally puts people and the planet first.
This is pest control, re-engineered from the molecule up.
Join us.
Michael Kraft
President — Applied Science Labs
They poison.We engineer.
Different chemistry. Same trade.
Every truck we send out carries VA88 and the science behind it. We treat homes, hotels, and multifamily properties the way we'd want ours treated — with a spray that doesn't need an evacuation window and a residual that's still working long after we've driven away.
If you treat homes for a living — the “they” in that line isn't you. It's the 70-year-old chemistry you inherited — the toolbox that breeds resistance, forces callbacks, and makes one in three customers flinch before you've said a word. Nobody knows its limits better than you do. We built VA88 for your truck too — and we're building a referral network around the pros who carry it.
Join the Pro NetworkSafer homes.
Pest control you don't have to evacuate for. No nervous-system poisons where your kids crawl, your pets sleep, and your food is made — minimum-risk, plant-derived actives that do the killing mechanically.
Smarter science.
Neurotoxins lose their edge as bugs adapt, generation after generation. A mechanical kill has no known resistance — there's no nerve pathway to adapt around. Every claim we make is backed by independent lab data, published and cited.
See the evidence →Fairer rules.
Neurotoxins don't dominate because they're better — the rules were written for them, decades ago. We're fighting to change national pest-control regulation itself: to make proof and safety the standard every product must meet, not the exception a few of us choose.
The fastest way to join the mission?
Put the science to work in your own rooms — and stop spraying nerve agents where you sleep.