All about atrazine

Dr Alison Bleaney

A public meeting in St. Helens Monday April 14th 12.30pm at Dohertys Resort with Professor Bernard Stewart discussing the use of atrazine.

There are to be Public Meetings at St Helens at Tidal Waters on Monday 14th April – commencing at 12.30 for approx an hour

Launceston – 7pm on 14th April at LGH 2nd floor lecture theatre and in

Hobart – 7pm on 15th April at RHH Clinical School, 3rd floor lecture theatre (Collins Street entrance)

Toxicologist Professor Bernard Stewart has been brought to Tasmania by the Cancer Council and will be talking about ATRAZINE and cancer .

Please come along to these important meetings ……….

ATRAZINE and its equivalent SIMAZINE has been and is used widely in the catchments of many rivers in Tasmania.

“Since 2005, atrazine has been found in the Duck River, the Jordan River, the Rubicon River, the Liffey River, and the Derwent River. Simazine has been found in the Brid River, the Montague River, the Prosser River, the Rubicon River, the South Esk River and Trevallyn Dam, the Macquarie River (contaminated with simazine from July 2007 until January 2008, with no data available since that month), Brumbys Creek, and Western Creek. Launceston’s water supply reported simazine in 2003 and 2004 at above guideline values, and atrazine at above guideline value in 2001. No figures can be given for episodes of contamination that were not measured or identified as Tasmania reportedly has only undertaken quarterly monitoring programs and these only for water soluble pesticides since 2005.
Atrazine has been found 16 times in river waters in Tasmania over the past 3 years. (5 in 2005, 5 in 2006, 6 in 2007) (DPIW pesticide monitoring program and results obtained from Freedom of Information request by the Greens.[1]) ”