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It would be good to have a short section in your book about health and safety in relation to chemicals used in collections. It could refer to variations in international standards and online availability of Material Data Safety Sheets (http://www.msds.com/) for all compounds which would allow users to make themselves aware of what they are using, or encountering in old collections, regardless of in which country they are based. The SPNHC volume on Health & Safety for Museum Professionals is a good point to which your readers could be directed. In Ireland (and much of Europe which follows standards set centrally in Brussels by the EU) it is an obligation on suppliers of bulk chemicals to make MSDS available to purchasers, this does not extend to packaging of products such as Vapona however (which is banned here but can still be found at the back of old hardware stores) but if you know the active ingredient you can check the MSDS. Nigel Mr Nigel T. Monaghan, Keeper, Natural History Division, National Museum of Ireland, Merrion Street, Dublin 2, IRELAND +353-1-6486354 (phone) +353-1-6486380 (fax) nmonag...@museum.ie www.museum.ie -----Original Message----- From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Anderson, Gretchen Sent: 09 June 2014 12:03 To: <pestlist@museumpests.net> Subject: Re: [pestlist] vapona This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Lou. I have wondered if there was a new formulation. Barbara Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 8, 2014, at 9:34 AM, "Louis Sorkin" <sor...@amnh.org> wrote: > > This is a message from the Museumpests List. > To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net > To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Vapona (Dichlorvos) is under a different formulation than it was years ago. > Produced now as Nuvan strip made by AMVAC. Also as Hot Shot No Pest Strip. > It's not registered in Canada. It's an organophosphate insecticide, a > cholinesterase inhibitor action material. Atropine is the antidote. Different > ones are formulated for professional use and some for general public use. I > think it's a big problem in letting the public use it; they really don't read > the instructions that well. I really don't know if I'd include it as a > product for your book, unless of course, you are also including other > insecticides and pros and cons. > > Louis N. 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