Minnesota Affirms Atrazine Regulation Is Protective

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA),evaluation determined that atrazine use, as
the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) andcurrently managed and regulated, is not harmful
the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA)to humans or aquatic life and that it is rarely
this month completed a special registration reviewdetected in Minnesota's public water systems,"
of the corn herbicide atrazine for the State ofsaid Dr. Tim Pastoor, principal scientist at
Minnesota.Syngenta Crop Protection. "Minnesota's findings
According to the MDA, "The review finds thataffirm what 6,000 scientific studies and 50 years
atrazine regulations protect human health and theof experience have told us. When the science
environment in Minnesota."does the talking, atrazine is found safe to use.
"Minnesota's independent and exhaustive