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Notice to members - Petition No 2184/2014 by Adolfo Barrena Salces (Spanish) on the need of an EU intervention concerning the severe contamination of the river Gallego with lindane in Aragon (Spain) - PE 575.166v03-00 - Committee on Petitions

Public Technologies 27 Feb 2019

Subject.Petition No 2184/2014 by Adolfo Barrena Salces (Spanish) on the need of an EU intervention concerning the severe contamination of the river Gallego with lindane in Aragon (Spain) ... The lindane, as a persistent organic pollutant, is prohibited by the Stockholm Convention, as well as Regulation 850/2004.

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Drummond: Yorba Lindans to be among voters in special election for supervisor

Orange County Register 07 Feb 2019

Yorba Linda residents might find themselves represented by another Democrat in an elective position, based on the party affiliation of the better-known candidates in the March 12 special election to fill a vacant seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors ... Other cities ... Jim Drummond is a longtime Yorba Linda resident ... .

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Notice to members - Petition No 0694/2017 by Samuel Martin Sosa (Spanish) on lindane - PE 620.752v01-00 - Committee on Petitions

Public Technologies 19 Apr 2018

Subject.Petition No 0694/2017 by Samuel Martin Sosa (Spanish) on lindane ... He requests that, within the Community institutions, coordinated action should be taken to tackle lindane contamination given that many other areas in the EU are also affected ... The Commission is aware of previous reports of Lindane contamination in different parts of Spain.

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Political Perspectives: 42,621 Yorba Lindans registered to vote this election

Orange County Register 11 Nov 2016

Hundreds of Yorba Linda ballots remain to be counted before results are certified by a state-imposed Dec. 8 deadline, although this county's elections officials usually have a completed tally within a couple weeks of Election Day. Most of the... .

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Political Perspectives: These five topics should interest Yorba Lindans

Orange County Register 19 Aug 2016

The city's investment policy for the current fiscal year has been modified to permit the use of financial institutions and brokers throughout the United States, changing the prior requirement that the city partner only with establishments physically... .

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Political Perspectives: Fewer Yorba Lindans casting their votes

Orange County Register 29 Jul 2016

What's behind the mystery of the missing voters in Yorba Linda? Are adult-age residents turned off by ever-increasing negative campaigning, as some academic studies suggest, or are they under the mistaken impression they can avoid jury duty if they... .

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Consumers Union calls on FDA to ban Lindane for head lice treatment (Consumers Union of ...

Public Technologies 02 Sep 2015

Consumers Union Calls on FDA to Ban Lindane for Head Lice Treatment. WASHINGTON, DC - Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy division of Consumer Reports, today called on the FDA to ban any human topical uses of lindane ... "Lindane is a very hazardous pesticide known to cause serious human health effects.

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How to treat had lice without lindane

St Louis Post-Dispatch 24 Jul 2015

Q • My 10-year-old just brought lice home from a friend’s house and gave it to her five brothers and sisters and myself. We have always used lindane, but the doctor said to use permethrin inst… ... .

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Treating head lice without lindane

Winston-Salem Journal 17 Jul 2015

Q. My 10-year-old just brought lice home from a friend's house and gave it to her five brothers and sisters and myself. We have always used lindane, but the doctor said to use permethrin instead. That didn't work. What else ....

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People’s Pharmacy: How to treat head lice without lindane

Winston-Salem Journal 16 Jul 2015

Q. My 10-year-old just brought lice home from a friend’s house and gave it to her five brothers and sisters and myself. We have always used lindane, but the doctor said to use permethrin instead. That didn’t work. What else ....

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How to treat head lice without lindane

The Lawton Constitution 12 Jul 2015

A. The Food and Drug Administration has asked doctors not to use lindane to treat lice unless all other treatments fail. Lindane can trigger seizures, a condition that is much more serious than lice ....

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DDT, Lindane Linked to Cancer - Who

All Africa 08 Jul 2015

[Observer] The World Health Organisation's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has now classified the lindane insecticide as carcinogenic (capable of causing cancer in living tissue) to humans. .

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WHO: Insecticides lindane and DDT can cause cancer

DNA India 24 Jun 2015

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WHO: Insecticides lindane and DDT linked to cancer

The Times of India 24 Jun 2015

The insecticide lindane, once widely used in agriculture and to treat human lice and scabies, causes cancer and has been specifically linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the WHO said on Tuesday ... IARC said high exposures to lindane have previously been reported among agricultural workers and pesticide applicators.

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Insecticide lindane found to cause cancer

The Guardian 24 Jun 2015

A Friends of the Earth campaigner protesting against the use of lindane outside the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ... The product, lindane, was once widely used in agriculture and continues to be found in some treatments for head lice and scabies ... Lindane has been banned ...