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Aeroplane cabins were sprayed with insecticide to kill live insects from the 1950s, sometimes by cabin crews and sometimes by quarantine officers. From the 1980s the spraying was done using a residual insecticide during aircraft maintenance.
Ministry for Primary Industries
'Aircraft disinsection', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/aircraft-disinsection, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 11-Jul-2019
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