Cockroaches spread many serious diseases in human beings including food poisoning, Hepatitis E, diarrhea, Salmonella, dysentery, and E. Coli. Cockroaches through shedding their skin and dropping contaminating hundreds of thousands of kilograms of stored food.

Roaches are the most difficult pest to eradicate because of their adoptability, capable of rapidly developing resistance to insecticides, and their fast reproductive nature.