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This site is a repository for information regarding the past and current use of the chemical lindane. This is not a website for those seeking medical advice regarding treatment for head lice or scabies. Lindane has a history of use in pest extermination, agriculture, veterinary medicine and as a treatment for human lice and scabies.

There are differences in human and environmental risk profiles for varying uses of lindane. As of 2009, agricultural use of lindane in the U.S. will have ended due to its 2006 deregistration by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. However exposures to lindane go on as the chemical persists where it has been used in the U.S. and around the world. Lindane is still manufactured in and outside the U.S. for use in agriculture and to combat particular animal and human parasites.

NPA believes that consideration of all past and current uses including agricultural lindane is critical given that general populations of humans continue to be exposed to lindane and the other isomers of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) before it is considered for use as a pharmaceutical in combination with or following the use of other chemicals.


Ban Lindane Now!
September is Head Lice Prevention Month!
DDT, Lindane Can Cause Cancer, WHO Says
Developing a new method of remediation of contaminated wooden structures
Remnants of Two Banned Insecticides Nearly Eliminated in Great Lakes Region
Over 40,000 tons of neurotoxin were stored without any protection in North Macedonia
2020 Sitapur gas leak: Deaths due to inhaling toxic fumes from insecticide Lindane, says report
Monday the WETPOL 2021 conference starts: International Symposium on Wetland Pollutant Dynamics and Control
...Pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in the Canadian Great Lakes Basin
Lindane Lotion Discontinued
Insecticide lindane found to cause cancer
WHO's IARC classified lindane, DDT, and 2,4-D as carcinogenic
Insecticide used to treat head lice can cause cancer, WHO says
...Because the Academy no longer recommends Lindane, this medicine has been eliminated from the clinical report as a consideration.
Breast milk reveals how many banned pesticides plague Tunisians.
The release of lindane from contaminated building materials
A fresh solution for the lindane problem
Markey to FDA: Stop Use of Toxic Chemical in Children's Shampoo
Lindane in Michigan 2009 See Michigan HB 4402
Testimony presented before the House Great Lakes and Environment

Permit to manufacture lindane in DeKalb, Mississippi

FDA puts lindane in
a black box!

Outcomes of the California ban on pharmaceutical lindane: clinical and ecologic impacts.
The National Pediculosis Association LACSD receive First Place Pollution Prevention Award!
 

 

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