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This site 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.

There are differences in human and environmental risk profiles for varying uses of lindane. 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.