"Registered" Lindane A Problem In Water Treatment
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Subject:   "Registered" Lindane A Problem In Water Treatment Plants-----
Date:        Fri, 09 Jun 2000 22:27:58 -0400
From:        Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

To:     Lyndon Hawkins <hawkins@empm.cdpr.ca.gov>
          Senior Research Scientist
          State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation - Integrated Pest Management

Dear Lyndon, 

The IPM Practitioner, April, 2000 issue noted: " According to Ann Heil, Senior Engineer of the Los Angeles Water Treatment District, your "registered" POISON,  lindane has become a problem in California waste water treatment plants.  Lindane is being used more frequently for lice "treatment", possibly because lice are becoming resistant to permethrin.  The district is finding concentrations of 40 ppt (parts per trillion) of lindane in Los Angeles waste water.   Source water for drinking water processing can contain no more than 19 ppt.   In the California Assembly AB2318 has been introduced to ban lindane.  The bill can be reviewed at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov.  

Well Lyndon, are you ready to "legally" allow a safe and far more effective lice treatment alternative that actually improves waste water treatment plants in California?  How about Not Nice to Lice, from Ginesis Products, in Nashville, Tennessee?  

Respectfully,  Stephen L. Tvedten

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