Lindane: Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Alternatives

The use of lindane as a pest control method to reduce damage to economic crops, specifically the
wheat midge and locust, is unnecessary given a wide variety of non-insecticidal methods.
Integrative pest management methods, including biological controls that can be synthesized and
massed produced are an adequate alternative to lindane, an insecticide with known persistence,
bioaccumulation, and long-range transport properties, as well as known adverse human and
ecological health effects.