Question by Brad:
Why has the EPA banned in-home use of pesticides effective against bedbugs?
http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/05/15/copy/legislators-push-bedbug-pesticide.html?adsec=politics&sid=101
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of bedbugs in this country. In the early years of the last century, bedbugs were eradicated within this country and had disappeared by the early 1940s. Bedbugs were so thoroughly eradicated that until recently, I didn’t even know such an insect actually existed.
Now, they are back with a vengeance. The pesticide Propoxur is the most effective pesticide to use to eliminate bedbugs from beds they have infected. Yet, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has banned its use in homes within the last year because the manufacturer decided not to pay the costs of testing it to get it approved for use in homes.
Does the EPA think that the welfare of bedbugs is more important than the welfare of humans?
Best answer:
Answer by Josey Wales
I reckon when the infestation reaches Pelosi’s and Obama’s rear end, then it will be legal real quick. Selfish people they are.
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“Yet, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has banned its use in homes within the last year because the manufacturer decided not to pay the costs of testing it to get it approved for use in homes.”
Why are you blaming that on the EPA. I work in pesticides. Everybody has to play by the same rules. Humans come in contact with a household pesticide, especially one used on bedding. The EPA is concerned with the welfare of humans, that’s why they want the testing. If they let it go through without testing it and it makes people sick, the EPA will get the blame.
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/metiram-propoxur/propoxur-ext.html
Btw there are other ways to control the things.
Maybe the manufacturer should pay the costs usually associated with testing a toxic chemical for general use by untrained people.
Typical right-wingers blaming the government for actions that rested in the company’s hands.