Lindane

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Lindane: - A pesticide that causes adverse health effects in domestic water supplies and is toxic to freshwater fish and aquatic life.
[Environmental Protection Agency]

News archive for Lindane::

Mapua people unhappy about botched clean-up  -  Jul 29, 2008
Radio New Zealand,The report says DDT, lindane, nitrate and ammoniacal nitrogen have exceeded the limits in the resource consent. In addition, Dr Wright says the Ministry for

Mapua clean-up costs blow out  -  Jul 28, 2008
Otago Daily Times,...of organochloride and organophosphate pesticides such as DDT, dieldrin and lindane, by the agrichemical company, which stopped operating in 1987.

Food Poisoning: How Many More Will Have to Die?  -  Jul 21, 2008
This Day,The result of the analysis showed that samples of the cooked beans and the uncooked beans contained outrageously high levels of lindane,

UFW Demands EPA Ban on Endosulfan,  -  Jul 26, 2008
Bay Area Indymedia,Endosulfan is an organochlorine pesticide, in the same family as DDT and lindane, and like DDT and lindane, it bioaccumulates and has been found in places

Killing fields  -  Jul 26, 2008
Scotsman,Problem pesticides include Chlordecone, Vinclozalin, DDT, Carbendazim, Lindane, and organophosphates. The full article contains 1317 words and appears in

Fish advisories issued  -  Jul 28, 2008
Brewton Standard,...hexachlorobenzene, chlordane, lindane, dieldrin, endrin, DDT and its breakdown products and congeners, heptachlors, Mirex, chlorpyriphos and toxaphene),

A legacy of poison  -  Jul 12, 2008
Minneapolis Star Tribune,The state pollution control board turned up traces of pesticides, including endosulfan, lindane, trichlorobenzene and DDT. Soil sediments were not tested.

Lifestyle & ecology  -  Jul 7, 2008
The Statesman,It carries a cocktail of salt and pesticides include DDT and lindane (a synthetic insectide), which are banned in Western countries but still poison the air

25 years later, toxic waste plagues Bhopal  -  Jul 7, 2008
Seattle Times,The state pollution-control board turned up traces of pesticides, including endosulfan, lindane, trichlorobenzene and DDT. Soil sediments were not tested.

Une deuxième couche pour le site PCUK  -  Jul 10, 2008
20minutes.fr,Sur place, des déchets de production de lindane, un puissant insecticide aujourd'hui interdit, ont été stockés sans précaution particulière.

94% des foyers français contaminés  -  Jul 26, 2008
Le Post,Parmi les substances les plus fréquemment dépistées dans l'air, on compte le propoxur (44 % des logements), l'alpha-HCH (49 %) et le lindane (88 %)

Agrotóxico que usa substância cihexatina pode ser banido do país ...  -  Jul 29, 2008
ComuniWEB,Desde 2001, quando começaram as reavaliações, já foram banidos cinco princípios ativos (monocrotofós, heptacloro, lindane, pentaclorofenol e benomil),

Shoppers Drug Mart / Wal Mart Introduce New Acne Rosacea Breakthrough  -  03 Dec 2007
PR Web (press release),Therapy of chronic blepharitis in association with demodex may include antibiotics, steroids, Quecksilber 2% or Lindane. Massage of lid margins is essential

Prevent cancer now  -  03 Dec 2007
Common Ground.ca,We want to tackle lindane, a very toxic pesticide and a suspected carcinogen that is banned throughout Europe, but still allowed for use in Canada as a

SUMMARY OF THE THIRD MEETING OF THE PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS ...  -  Nov 25, 2007
Earth Negotiations Bulletin,On Monday, Chair Arndt introduced several presentations on socioeconomic considerations of potential control measures: the first on South Africa and lindane

Giant Robots In Industrial Wastelands  -  Nov 5, 2007
Registan.net,In Sumgayit, Azerbaijan, old Soviet factories once belched clouds of toxic fog, making everything from lindane to DDT. It all went south, so to speak,

Let sleeping bats lie  -  Nov 4, 2007
Ha'aretz,...suffered serious harm when it was thought that the bats damaged fruit crops, and the caves were fumigated with Lindane, an extremely toxic pesticide.

Head lice are the back-to-school nitty gritty  -  Aug 22, 2007
Casa Grande Valley Newspapers,Lindane, once widely used for treatment, is a neurotoxic chemical in the same family as DDT. Its use not only exposes the child to a neurotoxic chemical but




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