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Hi<br>
Atrazine is a poison. <br>
Many products in use in North America are "poisons" depending on the
dosage.<br>
I am not an environmental scientist and cannot say that atrazine
does not cause cancer. My two cents is that the increase in cancer
is not just from atrazine but from the large number of endocrine
disrupters in the environment (personal care products,
pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals,) and the interaction of these
compounds.<br>
Here's a link to a story about atrazine.<br>
I am less interested in the pros and cons of atrazine than making
sure more "facts" are part of the discussion.<br>
js<br>
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<p>Do atrazine and its triazine cousins have any
value to Cornbelt farmers? After all, the EPA
is continually in a process of re-registering
its use, even though approval might have just
been certified. A recent estimate of the
value of triazine products puts their value at
$3 billion per year to agriculture, spread
across the Cornbelt, and extending into
sorghum and sugar cane regions of the US.</p>
<p>Your predecessors on your farm first began
using atrazine in 1959, and it was the most
widely used herbicide until recently overtaken
by glyphosate. Numerous studies have been
made of atrazine and its chemistry, the most
recent <a title="study "
href="http://www.aae.wisc.edu/pubs/sps/pdf/stpap564.pdf"><strong><font
color="#3366cc">study </font></strong></a>by
agricultural economist Paul Mitchell of the
University of Wisconsin. Mitchell’s study
takes into account current corn production
data, left out of prior reports, along with
the economic impact of genetically modified
corn and the increased dependence of the
biofuel industry on corn. Mitchell adds that
the recent issues surrounding glyphosate
resistance in a dozen weed species increase
the potential importance of atrazine as an
alternative means of weed control. </p>
<p>Using all of these dynamics, Mitchell sets up
a series of scenarios with and without the
availability of atrazine to farmers and
calculates the financial difference. For
example he says if glyphosate is applied to
75% of corn acres, that would likely increase
to as much as 100% if atrazine were not
available.</p>
<p>Mitchell says one indicator of the value of
atrazine is its widespread use, resulting from
its low cost and effectiveness against many
broadleaf weeds and grasses. He said USDA
data indicated atrazine was used on 62% to 75%
of corn acres between 1990 and 2005, declining
only because of the introduction of glyphosate
for corn. He says even when glyphosate was
being applied to 75% of corn acreage in 2009,
atrazine was being used on 57% of corn acres.
Prior to glyphosate for corn, when 68% of
acres were being treated with atrazine in
1991, the second most popular herbicide
metolachlor was being used on only 20% of
acreage.</p>
<p>If atrazine were unavailable for use,
Mitchell says alternatives would be used and
he based his value calculations on weed
infestations, potential yield losses,
herbicide efficacies, and crop potential in
the various USDA production regions of the
US. Based on yield data from other
researchers, Mitchell computed a 20% yield
loss without atrazine. Evaluating earlier
reports, he said costs of additional
herbicides were included, but not the time and
machine cost of additional applications of
herbicides. And he says because each field
and farm are different, the cost is difficult
to determine.</p>
<p>Examining the value of the weed control
benefits, Mitchell used market price and input
cost data from USDA from 2007 to 2009. For
example, Mitchell uses the USDA’s Heartland
Region, which is the central part of the
Cornbelt, and says without atrazine, revenue
losses would range from $31 to $36 per acre.
He calculated that at $9,000 to $10,000 per
farm based on only 281 acres of corn per farm,
for a total of $2.2 to $2.7 billion for the
four state heartland region. Losses in the
other regions are millions of dollars per year
and account for 25% to 30% of all US losses.</p>
<p>For those 281 acres of corn, described as
average for Cornbelt farms, Mitchell says
without atrazine, herbicide costs would be
$750 or $177 million per year. The impact on
net income in the Heartland region is about
$10,000 per year, but when all US agricultural
regions are tabulated, the net income loss
climbs above $2.36 billion. With the loss of
yield from the lack of atrazine, Mitchell says
the average per acre revenue in his 2007 to
2009 period would be $547 using ERS data and
$616 using NASS data. When combining income
loss from corn, sorghum, sweet corn and sugar
cane, Mitchell says the total would range from
$3.0 to $3.3 billion per year, with 60% of the
benefit in the Heartland region. He is quick
to note that because current crop prices are
33% higher than in the 2007 to 2009 period,
benefits would be increased by 33%.</p>
<p>Mitchell also looked at other benefits, which
included the way atrazine enhanced the
performance of other herbicides. Using the
research of a number of weed scientists, he
reports:<br>
1) Atrazine enhances the broadleaf spectrum of
bromoxynil, and it complements the grass,
control of acetochlor, where atrazine provides
the broadleaf control.<br>
2) Atrazine enhances the broadleaf weed
control value of other less efficacious
herbicides and complements the efficacy of
grass herbicides, which generates economic
benefits for crop farmers.<br>
3) Atrazine cannot be used on soybeans, but by
providing effective weed control in corn,
atrazine reduces the weed seed bank and
subsequent interference pressure from weed
species that can be difficult to control in
soybeans.<br>
4) Atrazine improves herbicide-resistant weed
management by providing a low cost and
effective alternative mode of action to
glyphosate and other non-triazine herbicides
in corn.<br>
5) Maintaining the availability of atrazine as
an alternative mode of action is particularly
important for herbicide resistance management
since no new herbicide modes of action have
been released for agronomic grain crops since
1990.</p>
<p>The Wisconsin economist found that the
development of herbicide resistant weeds is a
major concern of farmers, and reported that
half of corn, soybean, and cotton farmers
express that as their primary concern. He
says based on current plantings, “if 5% more
corn and soybean farmers became concerned
about weed resistance because triazine
herbicides were not available, these average
per acre reductions in value imply an annual
average loss of almost $15 million for corn
farmers and almost $12 million for soybeans
farmers, just from an increase in concern
about herbicide-resistant weeds.” And he said
that dollar value would double if the
percentage of concern was doubled.</p>
<p>Another benefit identified by Mitchell is
that of the environmental impact of reduced
tillage, which cuts soil erosion by $44
billion annually and use of pesticides by $8
billion annually. With the effectiveness of
atrazine in reduced till acreage, Mitchell
says research found, “Every year, conventional
tillage corn had the lowest percentage of
acres using atrazine and no-till corn had the
highest percentage, except in 2007 when a
greater percentage of conservation tillage
corn acres received atrazine than no-till
acres. These data demonstrate that in corn
production, atrazine is consistently used more
often in reduced tillage systems than in
conventional tillage systems.” Due to the
increasing amount of weeds resistant to
glyphosate, Mitchell says the use of atrazine
becomes even more important in reduced tillage
crops. Otherwise there would be a reversal of
a 30 year trend in tillage reduction, just for
control of glyphosate resistant weeds, if
atrazine were not available.</p>
<p><strong>Summary</strong>:<br>
Atrazine has become a mainstay of many farmers
for broadleaf and grass control in corn, even
with the use of glyphosate. It has been both
a complement and a replacement for glyphosate,
particularly in reduced tillage fields.
However, benefits allowed by the use of
atrazine can exceed $3 billion per year due to
increased weed control that allows increased
yield. This is not only true in the Cornbelt,
but also benefits sorghum, sweet corn, and
sugar cane production areas.</p>
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:34:36 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
Lake Erie Source Water Protection Committee : re ATRAZINE<br>
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review the following information regarding the use
of the broad leaf pesticide Atrazine in the Grand
River Watershed, a water supply that provides for
over 1 million people. I would like to see a study
initiated to see if the elevated breast and
prostate cancers along the Grand River are linked
to the use of this particular chemical.</span></div>
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<div><font class="yiv213190346Apple-style-span"
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Please forward this
to the Lake Erie Source Water Protection Committee
on my behalf please.</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,
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style="font-size:13px;">Dear Source Water
Protection Committee members</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; "><span
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style="font-size:13px;">Atrazine is the largest
pesticide being used over the Grand River
Watershed over corn and soya crops and it was
already banned in the UK for it's endocrine
disrupting properties. It's linked to breast and
prostate cancers as well. These two cancers exist
all along communities along the Grand RIver beyond
provincial averages as I observed by reviewing the
annual reports by public health departments. </span><span
class="yiv213190346Apple-style-span"
style="font-size:13px;"><font
class="yiv213190346Apple-style-span" size="2">I
am concerned about intensified farming related
to extended growing seasons associated with
Climate Change and how additional </font>loadings<font
class="yiv213190346Apple-style-span" size="2"> of
Atrazine could impact our watershed well, river
water quality and human health. We need to
investigate the breast and prostate cancers to
see if affected areas co-relate to either direct
exposure to Atrazine use or to atrazine in
municipal water supplies and secure 12 month
seasonal analysis to monitor for delta levels. </font></span></div>
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helvetica, sans-serif; "><span
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helvetica, sans-serif; "><span
class="yiv213190346Apple-style-span" style="color:
rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; font-family:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Currently all
pesticides used, sold or imported into Canada
are regulated by the Pest Management Regulatory
Agency (PMRA) of Health Canada. In 2004 they did
tests in Waterloo Region to re-evaluate the safety
of Atrazine. The </span><span
class="yiv213190346Apple-style-span" style="color:
rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; font-family:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> Information
provided by the EPA played a key roll in this
re-evaluation and The Pest Management Regulatory
Agency of Health Canada has concluded that "all
the uses of Atrazine do not entail an unacceptable
risk to human health".</span></div>
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helvetica, sans-serif; "><span
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helvetica, sans-serif; "><span
class="yiv213190346Apple-style-span" style="color:
rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; font-family:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> What this study
failed to mention is fact that Atrazine is banned
by the European Union. It is banned in France,
Denmark, Germany, Norway and Sweden because it has
proven endocrine-disrupting properties and it has
toxic impacts on wildlife in existing
water systems in concentrations as low as 2.16
ppb.</span></div>
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This chemical alters the sex of frogs. This fact
has been proven independently in labs in Japan,
Canada and the US. It is linked to breast cancer
and prostate cancer. These findings are supported
by research conducted by the World Health
Organization, Berkley University and several
international research facilities.<br>
<br>
In spite of the related health risks, the EPA
still chose not to limit the use of atrazine. Ron
Kendall, the chairman of EPA’s scientific advisory
panel is a former employee of Syngenta, the
manufacturer of Atrazine. In fact he ran the lab
that did all of Syngenta's work.<br>
<br>
Syngata has a problem right now with men
experiencing high levels of prostate cancers in
their factory in Louisiana.<br>
<br>
The US Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC)
has filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court in
Washington, D.C. on February 17, 2005 citing that
the US EPA has illegally negotiated secret
agreements with industry lobbyists over pesticide
regulations concerning Atrazine and Dichlorvos.</span></div>
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Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">In Canada, Jay
Bradshaw, the president of Syngenta Canada sits
on the steering committee for Health Canada's
Pest Management Regulatory Agency in Guelph.<br>
<br>
A Breast Cancer forum in Cambridge Ontario
used deformed frogs found in Laurel Creek in
Waterloo to illustrate how polluted water can
result in abnormal growth of cells. Currently the
GRCA reports that male fish are currently
developing female physical traits in the Grand
River. These factors may be linked to Atrazine.</span></div>
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helvetica, sans-serif; "><span
class="yiv213190346Apple-style-span" style="color:
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<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; "><span
class="yiv213190346Apple-style-span" style="color:
rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; font-family:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Dr. Brian Dixon an
immunologist at U of Waterloo, has done some
research with pesticides including a study on DDT
and malathion in Point Pelee. He studied frogs and
found that very low doses of pesticides
suppress the immune system, leading to health
issues. He wanted to do more work on atrazine but
couldn't get the funding. Perhaps with assistance
via the GRCA or other<br>
water related agency, we can help fund his
research.<br>
<br>
In Waterloo Region in 1998, 20,451 kg of
triazine herbicides were used on all crops.
Atrazine was the most highly used triatizine
applied. The concentrations that caused frog
deformaties were low enough to be considered safe
for drinking water comsumption based on current
EPA standards.<br>
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I believe Canada should make the effort to include
international scientific studies from several
independent bodies to formulate our test results
beyond just the EPA scope otherwise we may
compromise public health and our ecology.<br>
</span></div>
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helvetica, sans-serif; "><span
class="yiv213190346Apple-style-span" style="color:
rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; font-family:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><br>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; "><span
class="yiv213190346Apple-style-span" style="color:
rgb(69, 69, 69); font-size: 12px; font-family:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">The leading
researcher on the issue is Tyrone Haynes. He
states: </span><span
class="yiv213190346Apple-style-span" style="color:
rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 16px; line-height:
24px; font-family: georgia, times, serif; ">“Atrazine
increases aromatase and/or estrogen production in
zebra fish, goldfish, caimans, alligators,
turtles, quail and rats,” Hayes points out. "So
this is not just a frog problem.”</span></div>
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helvetica, sans-serif; "><a
moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank"
href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=sex-changing-weed-killer"
style="color:rgb(35, 71,
134);outline-width:0px;outline-color:initial;">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=sex-changing-weed-killer</a></div>
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helvetica, sans-serif; "><br>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; "><span
class="yiv213190346Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 13px; font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; ">Currently the EPA
is looking for public information to
consider a ban the chemical in the US: </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank"
href="http://www.awwa.org/publications/breakingnewsdetail.cfm?itemnumber=57543"
style="color:rgb(58, 101,
187);outline-width:0px;outline-color:initial;">http://www.awwa.org/publications/breakingnewsdetail.cfm?itemnumber=57543</a></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; ">It is my hope that we
can prohibit the use of Atrazine over top
source areas and adjacent to the Grand River
as part of the Source Water Protection Act.
Commercial alternatives exist.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; ">Thank you kindly for
your time</div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,
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<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; ">700 Star Flower Ave.</div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,
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