A bed bug policy advocacy group
From the category archives:
Harvard School of Public Health entomologist Dr. Richard Pollack’s testimony before the New York City Council Consumer Affairs Committee on September 18, 2006 deserves reexamination. Actually, it will take some work to redeem his testimony, as it has not so much been forgotten as it was never properly noticed, but I think it’s worth [...]
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Tonight it was King Comfort Mattress of Woodside, Queens who got their turn before the cameras, spray disinfectant bottles in both fists.
John Deutzman reported for Fox 5 on the Queens used mattress refurbisher.
Do I really have to tell you what happened here?
Interestingly, when tempers were restored, Deutzman got a tour of the facility and an [...]
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Let’s recap what we learned this week:
The New York Department of State has said that it does not intend to publish mattress sanitizing regulations because doing so would constitute an effective ban on reconditioned mattresses.
The city’s Department of Consumer Affairs believes that poor New Yorkers—those who are least able to afford illness or the costs [...]
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Dateline’s investigative piece today revisited the reconditioned mattress problems in New York City.
In 1996, 19 states had laws in place regulating the sale of reconditioned mattresses. This year that number is up to 26. We started our investigation in New York, where state law requires them to be labeled clearly with yellow tags [...]
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