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Bed bugs in “refurbished” mattresses on Fox NY »

By nobugsonme on May 22, 2008 in avoiding bed bugs, bed bugs and mattresses, bed bugs and the media, bed bugs in the media, bed bugs new york, bed bugs spread, bedbugs, city of new york, city policies, consumer, furnishing bedbug-free homes, mattress recycling, mattresses, new york city, new york state, news | 0 Comments

Fox News NY visits a mattress recycling operation in Woodside to report on bed bugs in “refurbished” mattresses.
It is perfectly legal to spritz, recover, and resell used mattresses in New York. They have to be sanitized and labeled properly.
There is no way to “sanitize” used mattresses to reliably remove bed bugs. [...]

David Segal strikes again, telling WNYC radio bed bugs are getting “hyperbolic coverage” »

By nobugsonme on Mar 11, 2008 in bed bug backlash, bed bugs, bed bugs and the media, bedbugs, bob garfield, david segal, dr. michael potter, hyperbolic coverage, new york, nyc, on the media, the spread of bed bugs, washington post, wnyc | 8 Comments

This time Segal speaks with Bob Garfield on WNYC.com’s “On the Media.” You can listen to it, or read a translated-by-a-machine transcript with lots of goofy typos by clicking here. I made my own corrections to the faulty transcript in the excerpts quoted below.
In this discussion, David Segal continues the argument he made [...]