lindane

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Representatives of 158 countries meet next month to debate whether lindane should be added to a list of chemicals targeted for a global phaseout under the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

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  1. noun A white crystalline powder, C6H6Cl6, used chiefly as an agricultural pesticide but also used topically in the treatment of scabies and pediculosis.

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  • If you look for product performance data that certifies removal of VOCs, THMs, benzene, alachlor, atrazine, lindane, —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Representatives of 158 countries meet next month to debate whether lindane should be added to a list of chemicals targeted for a global phaseout under the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. —  Organic Consumers Association News Headlines
  • Environmentalists are asking the administration to push governments to add lindane to the treaty's list of restricted chemicals. —  Organic Consumers Association News Headlines
  • When treaty members meet, they will discuss whether nine chemicals, including lindane, should be added to the treaty. —  Organic Consumers Association News Headlines
  • Health officials have continued to recommend the products, however, because over-the-counter medications like the permethrin in Nix, the pyrethrin s in RID, the lindane in Kwell and the prescription malathion in Ovide still work in some people, some of the time. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
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  1. After Teunis van der Linden, 20th-century Dutch chemist.
 

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