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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Louisette Lanteigne <butterflybluelu@rogers.com><BR>Subject: Re: [All] Atrazine: Shocking new data regarding Canadian water levels.<BR>To: "Susan Koswan" <dandelion@gto.net><BR>Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 3:22 PM<BR><BR>
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<DIV>According to the latest from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, atrazine is currently being used in Corn (ensilage, field, seed and sweet), lowbush blueberries and triazine-tolerant canola (rapeseed). </DIV>
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<DIV>In our area farmers rotate their corn/soybean crops so that's probably how the link was made. Damages to soybeans from the previous corn crops shows in the leaves. </DIV>
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<DIV>Lulu :0)</DIV>
<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 3/3/10, Susan Koswan <I><dandelion@gto.net></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Susan Koswan <dandelion@gto.net><BR>Subject: Re: [All] Atrazine: Shocking new data regarding Canadian water levels.<BR>To: "'GREN'" <all@gren.ca><BR>Date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 2:43 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>The latest report from OMAFRA is from 2004 reporting on 2003 pesticide<BR>usage:<BR><A href="http://www.agcare.org/File.aspx?id=752a4ce9-80d2-4287-822b-125e1f7a87b3" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.agcare.org/File.aspx?id=752a4ce9-80d2-4287-822b-125e1f7a87b3</A> The<BR>report is more of an estimate because reporting is never 100%.<BR><BR>"Atrazine use in field corn was maintained at 80 percent of the 1998 usage,<BR>at 499,000 kg. This<BR>demonstrates that atrazine continues to be a required weed management tool<BR>in field corn."<BR><BR>The herbicide of choice for the 2,000,000 acres of soybeans grown in Ontario<BR>in 2003 was 861,983 kg. of glyphosate (GM Roundup Ready soybeans) with<BR>second place going to metolachlor at 111,604 kg. Atrazine wasn't listed. <BR><BR>Genotoxic effects have also been observed in tadpoles exposed to<BR>metolachlor. <BR>Clements, C., Ralph, S.,Petras, M. (1997). Genotoxicity of select
herbicides<BR>on Rana catesbeiana tadpoles using alkaline single-cell gel DNA<BR>electrophoresis (Comet) assay. Env. Mol. Mut. 29: 277-288.<BR><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metolachlor" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metolachlor</A><BR><BR><BR>Susan K<BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: <A href="http://ca.mc883.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=all-bounces@gren.ca" rel=nofollow target=_blank>all-bounces@gren.ca</A> [mailto:<A href="http://ca.mc883.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=all-bounces@gren.ca" rel=nofollow target=_blank>all-bounces@gren.ca</A>] On Behalf Of jeff<BR>stager<BR>Sent: March-03-10 2:04 PM<BR>To: Robert Milligan<BR>Cc: <A href="http://ca.mc883.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=all@gren.ca" rel=nofollow target=_blank>all@gren.ca</A><BR>Subject: Re: [All] Atrazine: Shocking new data regarding Canadian water<BR>levels.<BR><BR>There are some nuances to the point that atrazine is used on soy.<BR>The short
answer is that atrazine is not used on soy.<BR>The long answer is that the report Loiusette is quoting was written 10+ <BR>years ago. The product, now basically discontinued in favour of better <BR>herbicides,, was from the family of "triazines".<BR>atrazine---corn<BR>cyanzine---corn (discontiued)<BR>metribuzine---soy(discontinued)<BR>simazine--tree nurseries<BR><BR>Robert Milligan wrote:<BR>> Thanks Lulu. I didn't know it was also used for soya.<BR>><BR>> I too have been very concerned about atrazine and its toxic effects <BR>> such as endocrine disruption -- with at least the sex organ changes <BR>> you described below, <BR>> see<BR><A href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:_nfb1KO-jlQJ:www.pesticide.org/atr" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:_nfb1KO-jlQJ:www.pesticide.org/atr</A><BR>azine.pdf+atrazine+AND+insects&hl=en&gl=ca&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESigNc98LcTGm_d-<BR>h4N7v4olgesVtzUaWTb6TLTT4j0uTo8zv1d7GoG7-MOExrc6A4FqYnFmiDKT-I6hTDt4ItOPXglA<BR>UMFkukKVD6YS3zM934DmTT2wQckYnZ610bLmNaMqBbeA&sig=AHIEtbRTQccuLyAyP7PI-vZfPUR<BR>rLms8IA <BR>><BR><<A href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:_nfb1KO-jlQJ:www.pesticide.org/at" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:_nfb1KO-jlQJ:www.pesticide.org/at</A><BR>razine.pdf+atrazine+AND+insects&hl=en&gl=ca&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESigNc98LcTGm_d<BR>-h4N7v4olgesVtzUaWTb6TLTT4j0uTo8zv1d7GoG7-MOExrc6A4FqYnFmiDKT-I6hTDt4ItOPXgl<BR>AUMFkukKVD6YS3zM934DmTT2wQckYnZ610bLmNaMqBbeA&sig=AHIEtbRTQccuLyAyP7PI-vZfPU<BR>RrLms8IA><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine</A><BR><A href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2362696/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2362696/</A>. <BR>><BR>><BR>> Also I was just remarking to my wife how the insect populations -- <BR>> inside & outside -- seem decimated! Endocrine disrupting atrazine <BR>> again? (not enough studies)<BR>><BR>> Is it in our drinking water (let's fond a trustworthy lab in US to <BR>> test for us.<BR>><BR><A href="http://datcp.state.wi.us/arm/agriculture/pest-fert/pesticides/atrazine/faq.j" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://datcp.state.wi.us/arm/agriculture/pest-fert/pesticides/atrazine/faq.j</A><BR>sp<BR>><BR><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/business/energy-environment/07water.html?_" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/business/energy-environment/07water.html?_</A><BR>r=1 <BR>><BR>>
Robert<BR>><BR>><BR>> <BR>> On 2-Mar-10, at 7:31 PM, Louisette Lanteigne wrote:<BR>><BR>>> Atrazine is used in corn and soya crops over the Moriane and all up <BR>>> and down the Grand River.<BR>>> <BR>>> Shocking new data exposes the fact that male frogs exposed to <BR>>> only HALF of Canada's current safety standards, not only changed sex, <BR>>> when exposed to non exposed males, they will breed and produced <BR>>> viable offspring. All the offsprings are males.<BR>>> <BR>>> <A href="http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03/02/tech-frog-weed-killer.html" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/03/02/tech-frog-weed-killer.html</A><BR>>> <BR>>> Lulu<BR>>><BR>>> _______________________________________________<BR>>> All mailing list<BR>>> <A
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