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Tag: NYC
What would New York’s missing mattress sanitizing regs look like anyway?
There are no sanitizing regulations and none are forthcoming. Still, what would they look like? There are 26 states that have reconditioned mattress regulations. How do they sanitize used bedding? Continue reading
Dateline NBC revisits the reconditioned mattress story
Dateline’s investigative piece today revisited the reconditioned mattress problems in New York City. Continue reading
Coming to the next bed bug seminar in Brooklyn?
The next Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) bed bug seminar will be held in Greenpoint. Continue reading
The public health question
Bed bugs affect the health and environment of city residents in several ways. Continue reading
We heard from Howard!
“What I can tell you is that the revised year-end number for 2007 of all bed bug complaints was 1,720 and that our Chief Exterminator says that in his experience about 70% of cases reported there is actual infestation.” Continue reading
Waiting for Howard
Today we wait for New York City Housing Authority spokesman Howard Marder to confirm the numbers cited for public housing infestations in David Segal’s Washington Post piece. Continue reading
NYC’s bed bug math problem
This is how New York City’s bed bug statistics have appeared in recent press articles. Continue reading