Atrazine news story


Weekly NMPRO e-mail for April 23, 2002

* The herbicide atrazine came under fire last week. A Univ. of
Calif.-Berkeley study showed that low levels of the substance can 
cause deformities and behavioral changes in frogs. U.S. EPA's 
allowable standard for tap water is 3 parts per billion atrazine, but 
the study found that tadpoles exposed to 0.1 ppb could become 
hermaphroditic -- having both male and female sex organs. Berkeley 
scientists proposed that atrazine may be the cause of the worldwide 
decline in frog populations.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/04/15_frogs.html

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