From AGRICULTURE.COM: Atrazine is often the poster boy for links between farm chemicals and human cancer rates. Still, an extensive multi-year federal Agricultural Health Study (AHS) recently found no consistent association between the popular corn herbicide and cancer rates on farmers, farm spouses, and pesticide applicators. “This is good news,” says Tim Pastoor, a toxicologist […]
From Madison/St. Clair Record: Two Kansas cities have been dropped from a proposed multi-state class action against Syngenta Crop Protection LLC and its Swiss parent company Syngenta AG over claims that a weed killer made by the companies contaminates water supplies. The cities of Plains and Dodge City, Kan. are the latest named plaintiffs to […]
From the NSW Department of Health (Australia): An expert panel formed to look into cases of gastroschisis in the Northern Rivers area has found no evidence to support concerns that there is a higher rate of the condition in northern NSW. NSW Health brought together the expert panel to address growing community concerns that there […]
From Alex Avery via CGFI: In April, the National Resources Defense Council issued an update in its all-out campaign to demonize and ban the herbicide atrazine. The scope of its attack shows that the NRDC has learned a thing or two from the 1980s, when it ginned up a successful campaign to demonize the apple […]
