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Pesticide Action Network (PAN) North America works to replace hazardous pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. As one of five PAN Regional Centers worldwide, we link local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens' action network. This network challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health and environmental quality, and works to insure the transition to a just and viable society.

Farmers Fighting for Their Health: Taking on Chemical Companies and Transitioning to Sustainable Agriculture
The EPA is currently re-assessing atrazine, which has been found in the drinking water of 33 million Americans. A recent report by the Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) and the Land Stewardship Project entitled The Syngenta Corporation and Atrazine The Cost to the Land, People and Democracy includes the stories of five farmers who've decided to stop using atrazine for health and safety reasons, and also draws attention to the possibility of a link between atrazine and breast cancer.

readMORE» Huffington Post, 02/24/10

MN Farmers Call on EPA for Safety Review of Weed Killer
Several midwestern farm groups are pleading with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take a closer, science-driven look at the weed killer atrazine. A new report states the chemical has been found in the water supply and poses a health danger. The report also claims that atrazine-maker Syngenta met behind closed doors with the EPA during its last review of atrazine, one of the world's top-selling herbicides, raising some red flags.

readMORE» MillieLacs Messenger, 01/07/10


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