From Syngenta Crop Protection: – Talking Points – The focus of the July 2011 Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) meeting will be on the atrazine water-monitoring and human-health studies. Syngenta has been contributing additional information to the EPA and SAP to advance the science on human toxicology and exposure and risk assessment. Atrazine is one of […]
From the July 2011 Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) Overview: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will convene a Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) to consider and review atrazine water-monitoring and human-health studies July 26-29, 2011. The Public Comment period opens Tuesday, July 26, from 4 to 6 p.m. and continues Wednesday morning, July 27, beginning at 8:45 […]
From High Plains/Midwest AG Journal: Kansas – News that two Kansas agricultural communities have signed on as participants in a class action lawsuit against the maker of the farm herbicide atrazine came as both a surprise and a disappointment to the Kansas Corn Growers Association and the Kansas Grain Sorghum Producers Association. The cities of […]
From U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Programs: 1. INTRODUCTION Atrazine – a chlorotriazine herbicide – is currently one of the most widely used agricultural herbicides in the United States, with approximately 70 million pounds of active ingredient applied domestically per year… …As part of this re-evaluation, the Agency held three meetings of the […]
