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Feb 25 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Atrazine in the water, by @RootCauseDoctor

The widely used agricultural herbicide messing with our sex hormones

cc: @SimmonsBart, @JulianaLung, @modernTman

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In US: 'Model predictions show that the highest frequencies of atrazine detection in shallow ground water beneath agricultural areas...
- the western Corn Belt
- eastern Great Plains
- Pacific Northwest
- Mid-Atlantic regions '
water.usgs.gov/nawqa/home_map…
In Australia, atrazine is shortening penis lengths of wallabies.
publish.csiro.au/RD/RD20158
Map of atrazine contamination in rural areas Down under
pesticides.australianmap.net/chemicals/atra…
Atrazine detected in the water in Canada since late 1980s
canada.ca/en/health-cana…

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