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Article: Last Call for Lindane.
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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Lindane is losing much of any luster it once had. The pesticide, once widely used to kill lice and a variety of pests that attack agricultural products, livestock, and trees, has slowly been eliminated from many applications since the mid-1970s. As long ago as the early 1980s, three U.S. organizations petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban lindane following an FDA doctor's advisory that the pesticide caused seizures in children and test animals. In two of the latest actions, the European Commission ruled in December 2000 that member states must withdraw all authorizations for plant protection products containing lindane, and California approved ...