From Organic Consumers Association's newsletter, 8/28/09: 
1) _Water Safety News of the Week:
How Much Weed Killer Is Safe in  Your Water Glass? _ 
(http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=s9/JQgt3nUt+v/7aiCWhMn3SIIqXjeWV) 
Syngenta's Atrazine herbicide is routinely sprayed on  non-organic corn 
crops, golf courses, and manicured lawns, but unfortunately  laboratory 
experiments indicate that the popular weed killer causes horrific  birth defects, 
low birth weights and menstrual problems - even at so-called  "safe" 
concentrations meeting current federal standards. Atrazine is banned as a  dangerous 
poison in the European Union, but still perfectly legal here in the  land 
of chemical-intensive farms and cheap corn-derived junk food.  


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