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October 25, 2007
Mitin
After a brief poke around in the dark side of Google, we can revel that Mitin in this case doesn't refer to Professor Dimitry Mitin of the rather splendid Research Group in Mathematical Inequalities, Department of Stochastic Process, Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences Ukraine
Nor does it refer to one Vladimir Mitin, professor. [PhD, 1987 from the Institute of Semiconductors at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences [not to be confused with the National Academy of Sciences Ukraine], Kiev.]
And neither is it Sergey Gerasimovich Mitin, governor of Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is in fact an insecticide, for dealing with the moth, though paragraph 40 CFR, Subsection 1, Section 152.160, of the Code of Federal Regulations, Chemical Profiles, does seem to suggest that it should have the word DANGER on the tin.
Posted by john at October 25, 2007 06:27 PM