What is the review status of atrazine at the Environmental Protection Agency?
In October 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the launch of a new comprehensive evaluation of atrazine. During the first year of this new evaluation, EPA will consider the potential for atrazine cancer and non-cancer effects, including data generated from laboratory animal and human epidemiology studies. As part of this evaluation, EPA is seeking advice from its independent Scientific Advisory Panel in a series of three meetings in 2010. At the conclusion of this health effects evaluation, EPA will ask the Scientific Advisory Panel to review atrazine’s potential effects on amphibians and aquatic ecosystems. If at any time atrazine data indicate new risk concerns, the EPA has stated that it will modify regulatory controls for atrazine as appropriate. More information on EPA’s activities can be found online.
