Atrazine: US EPA to Commence Assessment this Fall

The US Environmental Protection Agency announced on October 7, 2009 that they were going to commence a comprehensive health assessment of the pesticide atrizine (one of the most widely used agricultural pesticides in the United States). Health Canada carried out a re-evaluation of atrizine in 2007, and the non-pesticide uses of atrizine were the subject of a screening level assessment completed earlier this year.