Policy-makers listen to community voices. To make the right decision on lindane, officials at the US Food and Drug Administration need to hear from parents who refuse to use a pesticide-laden product on their child. Pesticide Action Network is inviting parents to join in sharing their lindane-free lice control success. Stories, photos and videos submitted to PAN will be presented to key FDA officials who are considering the US position on an upcoming global ban of lindane under the Stockholm Convention.
"They need to know that we don't need toxic chemicals to control lice," says Kristin Schafer, PAN's Associate Director for Advocacy. "Your stories will also give campaigners in Michigan the real-world evidence and encouragement they'll need to protect children from lindane as a statewide ban is considered there this spring. We'll then carry your stories with us to Geneva, Switzerland as PAN International makes a final push for a global lindane ban in May."
California PAN activists have already submitted their lindane-free lice control stories; lindane products were banned in the Golden State in 2001.
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