What is the egg withdrawal time from using permethrin on chickens for mites?

[ThickenTheChicken]

I have mites and bought this to help with it. How long until it’s safe to eat the eggs again? I heard that permethrin is carcinogenic and can be in the eggs after use.

 

[nuthatched]

Since it's dust, I doubt it has much affect on the eggs.

 

[sourland]

Level peaks at 7 days in eggs with traces up to 21 days.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

and while I would not recommend drinking the stuff by making a slurry of permethrin dust and water, in a healthy human permethrin is rapidly broken down by protein reactions on the skin (and within our digestive tract), filtered by the liver, and excreted. Medically significant one time doses are quite large in volume - much more than the trace amounts measurable in an egg.

The same is true of almost every mammal (except cats - they lack a needed enzyme).