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  • Thread starter Watson A.Name - \Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\
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Watson A.Name - \Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\

Jan 1, 1970
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I walked by a big bin of these at the OSH store yesterday evening, and I
couldn't resist the temptation to buy one ($6.97) just for its
collectible value. It's a Lentek 'Mosquito Contro' which is a bit
bigger than a business card and about 3/8" (10mm) thick (not counting
the pocket clip), and uses two LR44 button cells for power. It has a "0
I II" switch and a "HI LOW" adjustment pot for 'fine tuning'.

I'm fully aware of this:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/02/lentek.htm

What I'm wondering is why, after almost two years, they are still
selling these in the stores. With the packaging that misrepresents that
these things actually work - says "repels mosquitos from your personal
space".

I can take the key chain off and use it for whatever. But the unit,
well, I guess I'll just tell people that this is just for grins.


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Rich Grise

Jan 1, 1970
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I walked by a big bin of these at the OSH store yesterday evening, and I
couldn't resist the temptation to buy one ($6.97) just for its collectible
value. It's a Lentek 'Mosquito Contro' which is a bit bigger than a
business card and about 3/8" (10mm) thick (not counting the pocket clip),
and uses two LR44 button cells for power. It has a "0 I II" switch and a
"HI LOW" adjustment pot for 'fine tuning'.

I'm fully aware of this:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/02/lentek.htm

What I'm wondering is why, after almost two years, they are still selling
these in the stores. With the packaging that misrepresents that these
things actually work - says "repels mosquitos from your personal space".

I can take the key chain off and use it for whatever. But the unit, well,
I guess I'll just tell people that this is just for grins.

The FTC kinda wrecks their credibility with this blanket statement:
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"...The proposed consent agreement announced today for public comment
would prohibit the respondents from representing that:

any air cleaning product will eliminate, remove, clear, clean,
neutralize, sanitize, oxidize, control, or reduce any indoor air
pollutant, or that use of such product will prevent, reduce the
incidence of, or provide relief from any medical or health-related
condition;..."
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I suppose the entire HVAC industry will have to refund all of the money
for all of those filters and electrostatic precipitators and ozone
generators that people have paid so handsomely for, that the FTC has
declared by fiat, don't work.

I guess it's been decided by the government that the only way to get
healthy indoor air is to ban smoking, and that dust mite feces,
bacteria/virus/fungus spores, outgassing construction materials, human
effluvia, and so on have nothing to do with it.

Stupid bureaucrats.

Cheers!
Rich
 
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Watson A.Name - \Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\

Jan 1, 1970
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Rich Grise said:
The FTC kinda wrecks their credibility with this blanket statement:
--------------
"...The proposed consent agreement announced today for public comment
would prohibit the respondents from representing that:

any air cleaning product will eliminate, remove, clear, clean,
neutralize, sanitize, oxidize, control, or reduce any indoor air
pollutant, or that use of such product will prevent, reduce the
incidence of, or provide relief from any medical or health-related
condition;..."
--------------
I suppose the entire HVAC industry will have to refund all of the money
for all of those filters and electrostatic precipitators and ozone
generators that people have paid so handsomely for, that the FTC has
declared by fiat, don't work.

I guess it's been decided by the government that the only way to get
healthy indoor air is to ban smoking, and that dust mite feces,
bacteria/virus/fungus spores, outgassing construction materials, human
effluvia, and so on have nothing to do with it.

You are the one who's taking it out of context. They said, " would
prohibit the respondents from representing that:" which means this only
appliers to the respondents, i.e. Lentek International, Inc., Joseph
Durek, a former Lentek principal, and Lou Lentine, a current principal.

You're just on one of your tirades.
 
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Paul Burridge

Jan 1, 1970
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I suppose the entire HVAC industry will have to refund all of the money
for all of those filters and electrostatic precipitators and ozone
generators that people have paid so handsomely for, that the FTC has
declared by fiat, don't work.

I guess it's been decided by the government that the only way to get
healthy indoor air is to ban smoking, and that dust mite feces,
bacteria/virus/fungus spores, outgassing construction materials, human
effluvia, and so on have nothing to do with it.

Do you actually get much of a problem with mosquitoes in the US? I'd
always thought of them as most associated with the tropics...
 
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repatch

Jan 1, 1970
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Do you actually get much of a problem with mosquitoes in the US? I'd
always thought of them as most associated with the tropics...

Most definitely not. We have mosquitoes up here in Canada, along with
another nasty bugs (black flies, I think the northern states also have
those). TTYL
 
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Watson A.Name - \Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\

Jan 1, 1970
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Neil O'Hara said:
If you read just a teensy bit farther, you'll find the rest of the sentence:

"unless these representations are supported by competent and reliable
scientific evidence."

You got a problem with that?

- Neil

Maybe you oughtta give him a break, after all, he's on one of his
occasional tirades. Humor him..
 
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Watson A.Name - \Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\

Jan 1, 1970
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Paul Burridge said:
Do you actually get much of a problem with mosquitoes in the US? I'd
always thought of them as most associated with the tropics...
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Well, some parts of the U.S. are _in_ the tropics. Like Hawaii,
Florida, etc.

But here in So. Calif, there's an occasional death from West Nile virus,
and there are some areas with skeeters along areas where there's
stagnant water, like wetlands. As some of the areas where wetlands once
were are reestablished, it would seem that the skeeter problem will get
worse. But it's not much of a problem.

But I started off this thread with a discussion of mosquito repellers,
their efficaccy, and this company, not mosquitoes in general. Ans why
am I able to buy one of these almost two years after this company agrees
to stop misrepresenting their products as capable of repelling skeeters.

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/02/lentek.htm
 
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Bart

Jan 1, 1970
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Yes. Minnesota, Land of 10,000 Lakes*, has mosquitos. Lots of
mosquitos. Much of Canada and Wisconsin and Michigan have, too. The
east coast of the US has them all up and down it. Alaska, hardly
tropical, is famed for them. Most of the states that have them seem
to make jokes about them being the state bird.
I wish ours were as small as birds.
Had to use my deer rifle on two of them today.
One had my Great Dane in a head lock while
the other tried to violate her!
 
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Tim Williams

Jan 1, 1970
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Cyli said:
Yes. Minnesota, Land of 10,000 Lakes*, has mosquitos. Lots of
mosquitos. Much of Canada and Wisconsin and Michigan have, too.

Last summer was *very* light on mosquitoes. Almost none, only a few after
the occasional rain (was kinda dry too) here in S WI. Then again, with the
hot non-winter, I'm pretty sure those were mosquitoes I saw at the last trip
to the junk yard. Occasional groups a foot or two across buzzing above a
puddle or whatever, but what's unusual is in all my life I've never seen any
over 1/4". These were like 1/2"...

Tim
 
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Don Klipstein

Jan 1, 1970
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Paul Burridge wrote: said:
Do you actually get much of a problem with mosquitoes in the US? I'd
always thought of them as most associated with the tropics...

Heck yes, bigtime even in upstate Pennsylvania and nearby parts of New
York state, in parts of Massechussets, and much of Wisconsin, plenty other
places in the Frostbelt, as well as the more subtropical/semitropical
parts of the eastern 60%.
Ever hear of yellow fever being a problem in the past in Philadelphia?
How about the West Nile virus - recently becoming a bit of a
mosquito-borne threat in the US?
Ever hear of people buying "bug zappers" hoping to zap mosquitoes? Ever
see how many citronella candles sell in the US?

Heck, there is a region in Alaska that has (during their brief summer) a
HUGE mosquito problem, since mosquitoes managed to survive there but none
of their natural enemies do! Go outdoors there with uncovered skin during
the season, and you get swarms of mosquitoes waiting for unocupied feeding
space on your skin!

- Don Klipstein ([email protected]) - bitten in Chicago, Philadelphia,
Boston, Orlando, and upstate Pennsylvania!
 
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Don Klipstein

Jan 1, 1970
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Watson A.Name - \"Watt said:
Well, some parts of the U.S. are _in_ the tropics. Like Hawaii,
Florida, etc.

Florida is entirely outside the tropics, although part of it has a
climate that qualifies as tropical.

Then again, the climate type usually called "Warm Humid Continental" is
sometimes called "Humid Subtropical", and includes by and large the
portion of the USA's "Northeast Corridor" along and southeast of Route 1
as far north as Boston! New York City qualifies as "Humid Subtropical"!
Then again again, mosquitoes flourish in many areas of the USA that are
"cool humid continental"!

A few nasty cold days in some especially cold winters in Philadelphia in
the early and mid 1980's had temperatures as cold as -7 degrees F (-22
degrees C) - did that free Philadelphia of mosquitoes? How about -40
degrees (or a little colder) in Wisconsin? Small insects manage to have
some individuals make it through awfully cold temperatures, and ever
notice how rapidly they can multiply once conditions get favorable again...

- Don Klipstein ([email protected])
 
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