TOKYO -- On the outside, it is just another unassuming building, but inside buzz more than 100 million harmful insects. The facility, a lab building on the 80,000 sq.-meter premises of Earth Chemical's Sakoshi Plant in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, conducts a number of tests with the insects in its efforts to develop new insecticide products.
On a recent day, a researcher in a white lab coat was testing an insect killer spray. The tester sprayed the agent on a cockroach and measured how far the insect moved before dying.
