Advisory Committee Rejects EPA's Preliminary Conclusion About Atrazine.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Chemical Market Reporter, July, 2000 by HESS, GLENN

A SCIENCE advisory committee has rejected Environmental Protection Agency's preliminary finding that the herbicide atrazine is a likely human carcinogen. Members of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act scientific advisory panel (SAP) have declined to endorse EPA's proposed reclassification of the widely used herbicide from a possible human carcinogen to a likely one.

But although the panel says atrazine is not a likely cause of cancer in humans, its members caution that the herbicide may lead to reproductive problems and impair the development of children, including delaying the onset of puberty. EPA is developing a risk assessment for atrazine that will be used in setting pesticide and water regulations. The agency is...

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