Lindane Again the Source of Controversy

From: Chain Drug Review | Date: July 27, 1998 | Copyright information

LOS ANGELES -- Lindane, the active ingredient in prescription-strength pediculicides, has become a bone of contention again after a lawyer here filed a petition with the California Attorney General's office seeking to clarify the state's 12-year-old law requiring citizens to be notified when they are exposed to toxic or carcinogenic substances.

The attorney, Shawn Khorrami, notes that California's Proposition 65, enacted in 1986, requires any business or person who distributes products formulated with even a trace of hazardous material to notify consumers that they are being ...

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