- Target:
- the Environmental Protection Agency
- Region:
- United States of America
- Website:
- healthychild.org
Atrazine is used to kill both broadleaf and grassy weeds. It is the second most widely used herbicide in the United States, after glyphosate. Atrazine is mainly used in agriculture. The greatest use of atrazine by far is on corn. Due to its ability to disrupt the endocrine system and interfere with hormones, atrazine has been linked to limb deformities, abnormal sexual changes, weakened immune systems, and declining populations of frogs and amphibians.
Research in the midwestern United States shows that men with elevated exposures to atrazine, alachlor and diazinon are much more likely to have reduced sperm quality. Reduced sperm counts, decreased sperm motility, and prostate inflammation have been observed in male laboratory rats exposed to atrazine.
We the undersigned call on the Envirionmental Protection agency to ban the use of Atrazine in all 50 states.
In tests this chemical has caused prostate, breast and ovarian cancer. Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland have banned the use of atrazine so why hasn't the USA taken any steps to protect its citizens?
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The Ban Atrazine in the USA petition to the Environmental Protection Agency was written by Eugenia Boone and is in the category Health at GoPetition.