Weighing Safety Of Weed Killer In Drinking Water, EPA Relies Heavily On Industry-Backed Studies

Huffington Post by Danielle Ivory | Jul. 8, 2010 (Investigative Report)

Companies with a financial interest in a weed-killer sometimes found in drinking water paid for thousands of studies federal regulators are using to assess the herbicide's health risks, records of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show. Many of these industry-funded studies, which largely support atrazine's safety, have never been published or subjected to an independent scientific peer review. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jul 8, 2010 - 12:19 PM PDT
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 by Randy Morrow - Jul. 9, 2010

This post details (some of) the conflicts of interest allowed by the EPA in its use of studies funded by the manufacturers of the products being tested, in particular it focuses on atrazine and its manufacturer Syngenta.

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 by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 8, 2010

An important story of conflict of interest, with perhaps too much attempt to include the industry/EPA arguments. There is no mention of the Bush corruption that put political pro-business managers in charge of the EPA henhouse.

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