[All] Atrazine: Shocking new data regarding Canadian water levels.

[jeff stager]

There are some nuances to the point that atrazine is used on soy.
The short answer is that atrazine is not used on soy.
The long answer is that the report Loiusette is quoting was written 10+ 
years ago. The product, now basically discontinued in favour of better 
herbicides,, was from the family of "triazines".
atrazine---corn
cyanzine---corn (discontiued)
metribuzine---soy(discontinued)
simazine--tree nurseries

Robert Milligan wrote:
> Thanks Lulu. I didn't know it was also used for soya.
>
> I too have been very concerned about atrazine and its toxic effects 
> such as endocrine disruption -- with at least the sex organ changes 
> you described below, 
> see http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:_nfb1KO-jlQJ:www.pesticide.org/atrazine.pdf+atrazine+AND+insects&hl=en&gl=ca&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESigNc98LcTGm_d-h4N7v4olgesVtzUaWTb6TLTT4j0uTo8zv1d7GoG7-MOExrc6A4FqYnFmiDKT-I6hTDt4ItOPXglAUMFkukKVD6YS3zM934DmTT2wQckYnZ610bLmNaMqBbeA&sig=AHIEtbRTQccuLyAyP7PI-vZfPURrLms8IA 
> <http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:_nfb1KO-jlQJ:www.pesticide.org/atrazine.pdf+atrazine+AND+insects&hl=en&gl=ca&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESigNc98LcTGm_d-h4N7v4olgesVtzUaWTb6TLTT4j0uTo8zv1d7GoG7-MOExrc6A4FqYnFmiDKT-I6hTDt4ItOPXglAUMFkukKVD6YS3zM934DmTT2wQckYnZ610bLmNaMqBbeA&sig=AHIEtbRTQccuLyAyP7PI-vZfPURrLms8IA>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2362696/.  
>
>
> Also I was just remarking to my wife how the insect populations -- 
> inside & outside -- seem decimated! Endocrine disrupting atrazine 
> again? (not enough studies)
>
> Is it in our drinking water (let's fond a trustworthy lab in US to 
> test for us.
> http://datcp.state.wi.us/arm/agriculture/pest-fert/pesticides/atrazine/faq.jsp
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/business/energy-environment/07water.html?_r=1 
>
> Robert
>
>
>  
> On 2-Mar-10, at 7:31 PM, Louisette Lanteigne wrote:
>
>> Atrazine is used in corn and soya crops over the Moriane and all up 
>> and down the Grand River.
>>  
>> Shocking new data exposes the fact that male frogs exposed to 
>> only HALF of Canada's current safety standards, not only changed sex, 
>> when exposed to non exposed males, they will breed and produced 
>> viable offspring. All the offsprings are males.
>>  
>> http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03/02/tech-frog-weed-killer.html
>>  
>> Lulu
>>
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