EPA proposes atrazine level modification
Story Date: 1/6/2020

 

Source: FARM PROGRESS, 1/2/20

The Atrazine Preliminary Interim Decision (PID) document published Jan. 2, 2020  in the federal register, opening a 60-day comment period. “This PID is good news for farmers across America,” says Missouri Corn Growers Association CEO Gary Marshall, who chairs the Triazine Network. The new atrazine PID corrects a recommendation made in the 2016 Ecological Risk Assessment to set the Level of Concern (LOC) at 3.6 parts per billion, an ultra-low level that would have banned the use of atrazine in much of farm country.

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