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Professor Discusses Atrazine With Lawmakers
A chemical used in pesticides has fans and foes in the court of public opinion. A University of California professor, Tyrone Hayes, made a presentation about atrazine to the Illinois House Environmental Health Committee.

Hayes says there is a great deal of evidence that atrazine leads to cancer and other ailments -- including gender confusion -- in frogs. Hayes says a frog can develop both testes and ovaries after exposure.

"Cancer is not an issue with atrazine," says Syngenta researcher Tim Pastoor, citing a 2000 report. What's more, he says, "Atrazine is not having effects on frogs' sexual development," according to work published in peer-review journals and endorsed by the EPA.

The information-only hearing included a farmer, Len Corzine from Assumption, who derided Hayes' presentation as an "activist roadshow" from Berkeley. The committee chairman, State Rep. Karen May (D-Highland Park), replied that the lawmakers invited Hayes and welcomed him.

(Illinois Radio Network)
03 06 10 by Newsroom
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