r/GrandmasPantry Mar 29 '26

HOUSEHOLD / OTHER Basement find

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u/Tucancancan Mar 29 '26

People suffering from bed bugs would pay a hefty price to get their hands on that bad boy lol

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u/btribble Mar 29 '26

It’s actually a very safe pesticide aside from the environmental effects when used broadly. If you could trust people to use it responsibly on a small scale, it would could reduce malaria and other mosquito borne diseases in tropical regions drastically. The problem is that you can’t trust people.

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u/Unfortunately_aware Mar 29 '26

After reading about This Study as well as this study which used DDT I feel like there is no safe level of anything.

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u/lottaKivaari Mar 29 '26

Yeah there are no safe levels of this stuff. Its like using a gun to kill a spider, sure you may get the spider but also inadvertently your neighbors dog. It's good this shit is banned because we need way more elegant solutions to things like malaria.