http://ehnca.org We all are stakeholders when it comes to breathing.© Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:30:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://ehnca.org/tyrone-hayes/ http://ehnca.org/tyrone-hayes/#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 17:27:37 +0000 admin http://ehn.users.sonic.net/ehnca.org/?p=18 UC Berkeley Biologist who found Atrazine linked to deformed sexual organs of frogs

• Atrazine-Induced Hermaphroditism at 0.1 PPB in American Frogs (Rana pipiens): Laboratory and Field Evidence Environmental Health Perspectives; Volume 111, Number 4;April 2003
  http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2003/5932/5932.html
• Hermaphrodite Frogs Caused By Popular Weed Killer?
  By Bijal P. Trivedi; National Geographic Today
  “April 16, 2002 Atrazine, a top selling weed killer in the United States and the world, has
  been found to dramatically affect the sexual development of male frogs, turning them
  into hermaphroditesãcreatures with both male and female organsãat concentrations
  30 times lower than those deemed safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). …”
  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/04/0416_020416_TVfrog.html
• Minnesota Center for Environment Advocacy
  http://www.mncenter.org/p.asp?WebPage_ID=7
  • Popular Pesticide Faulted for Frogs’ Sexual Abnormalities
    6/18/2003 Jennifer Lee The New York Times Ý Scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency say there is “sufficient evidence” to conclude that the country’s most widely used pesticide, atrazine, causes sexual abnormality in frogs. http://www.mncenter.org/p.asp?WebPage_ID=24&Profile_ID=258
• Profile: Hopping Mad
  A frog biologist battles an agrichemical giant
  by Kerry Tremain; Sierra Club
  http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200407/profile.asp
• New Study Finds Very Low Levels of Exposure to Common Herbicide Causes
  Sex Reversal, Hermaphroditism in Frogs
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Brandon Adams (919-541-5466); 23 October 2002
  http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/press/atrazine.html
• The Story of Syngenta & Tyrone Hayes at UC Berkeley: The Price of Research
  A Berkeley Scientist Says a Corporate Sponsor Tried to
  Bury his Unwelcome Findings and Then Buy His SilenceÝ
  By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK / The Chronicle of Higher Education v.50, i.10, 31oct03
  http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/2003/Syngenta-Tyrone-Hayes31oct03.htm

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