Dangerous herbicide still widely used on U.S. farms

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A dangerous herbicide remains perfectly legal to use in the United States

even though it's been banned in several European countries. Research shows the

herbicide causes alarming deformities in the sex organs of amphibians, and some

biologists believe it may be putting aquatic ecosystems at extreme risk.

Today's feature article reveals the story on Atrazine, which remains widely used

on

crops grown in the United States.

 

 

Health: Common crop pesticide Atrazine linked to reproductive mutations in

amphibians

http://www.newstarget.com/021995.htm

Pollutants such as pesticides and toxins damage the ecosystem and cause a

variety of damaging ailments in humans. One particular herbicide, Atrazine, has

now been found to turn male frogs into hermaphrodites, rendering them impotent

by causing their gonads...