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atrazine

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atrazine
a triazine herbicide; it is not poisonous at levels of intake likely to be encountered in agriculture.

atrazine
Toxicology A nonphytoestrogenic herbicide. See Phytoestrogen.


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A 30-minute exposure to a 1 parts per billion (ppb) concentration of atrazine reduced the activity of olfactory neurons in coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) by 11 percent, the researchers reported last November at the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) in Montreal.
According to recent USDA statistics, atrazine continues as the most-applied corn herbicide on 66% of the planted acres treated in 2005, applied at an average rate of 1.
DuPont Crop Protection and Dow AgroSciences LLC announce the two companies have reached an agreement under which Dow AgroSciences will supply DuPont with acetochlor and acetochlor plus atrazine premix herbicides for pre-emergence use in corn.
 
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