<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Thanks Lulu. I didn't know it was also used for soya.</div><div><br></div>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 <a href="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</a>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2362696/. <div><br></div><div>Also I was just remarking to my wife how the insect populations -- inside & outside -- seem decimated! Endocrine disrupting atrazine again? (not enough studies)</div><div><br></div><div>Is it in our drinking water (let's fond a trustworthy lab in US to test for us.</div><div>http://datcp.state.wi.us/arm/agriculture/pest-fert/pesticides/atrazine/faq.jsp</div><div>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/business/energy-environment/07water.html?_r=1 </div><div><br></div><div>Robert</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div> <br><div><div>On 2-Mar-10, at 7:31 PM, Louisette Lanteigne wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>Atrazine is used in corn and soya crops over the Moriane and all up and down the Grand River.</div> <div> </div> <div>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. </div> <div> </div> <div><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03/02/tech-frog-weed-killer.html">http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03/02/tech-frog-weed-killer.html</a></div> <div> </div> <div>Lulu</div></td></tr></tbody></table>_______________________________________________<br>All mailing list<br>All@gren.ca<br>http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/all_gren.ca<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>