Lindane Education and Research Network
Lindane Education and Research Network (L.E.A.R.N.) is a repository for information regarding the past and current use of the chemical lindane. This is not a website for those seeking medical advice regarding treatment for head lice or scabies. Lindane has a history of use in pest extermination, agriculture, veterinary medicine and as a treatment for human lice and scabies.
Ban Lindane Now!
“The future will depend on our wisdom not to replace one poison with another.”
National Pediculosis Association®, Inc.
The Lindane Project petitioned the United States Government to cancel lindane’s registration as a pharmaceutical as it has been cancelled by the EPA for all other uses.
Lindane Exposure Risk
As of 2009, agricultural use of lindane in the U.S. will have ended due to its 2006 deregistration by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. However exposures to lindane go on as the chemical persists where it has been used in the U.S. and around the world. Lindane is still manufactured in and outside the U.S. for use in agriculture and to combat particular animal and human parasites.
NPA believes that consideration of all past and current uses including agricultural lindane is critical given that general populations of humans continue to be exposed to lindane and the other isomers of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) before it is considered for use as a pharmaceutical in combination with or following the use of other chemicals.