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Something about the structure formula: the triazine N atoms seem missing. Have a look at [1] for comparison.
- Problem addressed and solved. --Shaddack 17:32, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
UC Berkeley prof Tyrone Hayes found that even in very small levels atrazine was an endocrine disruptor. Ecorisk (sygenta) who funded his study attempted to prevent publication of his work. atrazine most popular herbicide. Article should reflect this. TitaniumDreads 22:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
- There's an excellent article on this: William Souder, "It's not easy being green: Are weed-killers turning frogs into hermaphrodites?", Harper's August 2006, p.59-66. Someone working on this article should have a look. - Jmabel | Talk 19:25, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Mid-West USA
Can anyone add to its affect in the Mid-Western US? There was a big EPA study gren グレン 03:26, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Advocate Tyrone Hayes article.
Hopiakuta 16:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Atrazine in Europe
I am puzzled by the statements on the situation in Europe because they seem to contradict the information present in the German Wikipedia article on atrazine (I provide both the German text and the translation in case someone wants to doule-check the translation).
Original text: Da Atrazin und dessen Hauptabbauprodukt Desethylatrazin auch ins Grundwasser gelangen und damit dann auch im Trinkwasser nachgewiesen werden kann, ist die Anwendung von Atrazin seit 1. März 1991 in Deutschland und seit 1995 in Österreich verboten.
Translation: Because athrazine and his main degradation product desethylatrazine may also reach the groundwater and therefore can be detected in the drinking water, the application of athrazine is prohibited in Germany since the first of march 1991 in Germany and in Austria since 1995.
One of the reasons for this prohibition was an incident of october/november 1986 that I can vividly recall because it so to say passed by my home. I live in Bonn (at that time capital of West Germany) located about 20 kilometers from Cologne on the river Rhine. This is what happened:
Original text: Am 31. Oktober 1986 gelangten etwa 400 Liter Atrazin über die Abwässer der Firma Ciba-Geigy in den Rhein, was zusammen mit einem weiteren Chemieunfall der Firma Sandoz bei Basel einen Tag später ein Fischsterben im Rhein auslöste.
Translation: On the thirty-first of october 1986 about 400 liters of atrazine reached the river Rhine in the wastwater of the Ciba-Geigy company. Together with another chemical accident at the Sandoz company in Basel it caused a fish kills in the Rhine.
The incident also influcenced the drinking water supply along the Rhine because much of the drinking water in this region is bank filtrate.
One additional remark: If the description turns out to be correct something else needs to be corrected: No country has ever discontinued atrazine use for health or environmental safety reasons, including the European Union, and is used in more than 80 countries worldwide.
This is not correct because the European Union is not a country but a supranational and intergovernmental union of twenty-seven states.
If the statements in the German WP are in one way or another incorrect please provide sources. I'll then edit that article. -- [[User:Jsde|Jsde]
[edit] New Tufts University Study
Could someone that works on this article please include this study in the article.
Early Exposure To Common Weed Killer Impairs Amphibian Development ScienceDaily (Apr. 18, 2008) — Tadpoles develop deformed hearts and impaired kidneys and digestive systems when exposed to the widely used herbicide atrazine in their early stages of life, according to research by Tufts University biologists.
The results present a more comprehensive picture of how this common weed killer -- once thought to be harmless to animals -- disrupts growth of vital organs in amphibians during multiple growth periods.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080416091015.htm Gandydancer (talk) 07:14, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
