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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. [...]

Cincinnati fights bed bugs, declares some success »

By nobugsonme on Jan 10, 2008 in affordable housing, bed bug spread, bed bug treatment, cincinnati, cincinnati department of public health, city policies, elderly, eliminate bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, joyce jones, laundry, low-income housing, northern kentucky, ohio, puclic health, senior apartments, seniors, smuel blackmon, stanley rowe | 2 Comments

Cincinnati held a meeting yesterday about bed bugs. Channel 9 (ABC) said yesterday:
The Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority will show the Health, Environment and Education Committee a presentation on the pests.
Officials said bed bugs are a big problem in the city’s public housing, which is overseen by the Housing Authority.
According to Channel 12, Cincinnati politicians [...]