The Center for Regulatory Effectiveness invokes the Data Quality Act to reject published studies on atrazine toxicity [1]

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Sass, Jennifer B ^a   Devine Jr , Jon P ^a  

^a National Resources Defense Council   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRAZINE; HERBICIDE;

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GOVERNMENT; LAW; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STANDARD; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; ATRAZINE; HERBICIDES; HUMANS; PEER REVIEW; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

EID: 18844469804     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

References (12)

1. Data Quality Act. 2001. Public Law 106-554, H.R. 5658, Sec. 515(a).
2. Frankenberry M, Lin J, Barger T, Urban D, Steeger T. 2003. January 28 EPA Response to Comments from Syngenta and Its Contractors, the Triazine Network, the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness, the American Water Works Association, the State of New York Office of Attorney General, the US Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, The California Regional Water Control Board, the American Farm Bureau Federation, and the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation, about the EPA Reregistration Eligibility Science Chapter for Atrazine, Environmental Fate and Effects Chapter, dated April 22, 2002. Washington, DC:U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Available: http://cascade. epa.gov/RightSite/getcontent/Tempfile.pdf?DMW_OBJECTID= 090007d480135e24&DMW_FORMAT=pdf
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7. Laws SC, Ferrell JM, Stoker TE, Schmid J, Cooper RL. 2000. The effects of atrazine on female Wistar rats: an evaluation of the protocol for assessing pubertal development and thyroid function. Toxicol Sci 58:366-376.
8. Sass J. 2003. MacLennan et al report on an elevated incidence of prostate cancer among workers in a triazine manufacturing plant [Letter]. J Occup Environ Med 45:343-344.
9. Stoker TE, Laws SC, Guidici DL, Cooper RL. 2000. The effect of atrazine on puberty in male Wistar rats: an evaluation in the protocol for the assessment of pubertal development and thyroid function. Toxicol Sci 58:50-59.
10. Stoker TE, Robinette CL, Cooper RL. 1999. Maternal exposure to atrazine during lactation suppresses suckling-induced prolactin release and results in prostatitis in the adult offspring. Toxicol Sci 52:68-79.
11. Tavera-Mendoza L, Ruby S, Brousseau P, Fournier M, Cyr D, Marcogliese D. 2002. Response of the amphibian tadpole (Xenopus laevis) to atrazine during sexual differentiation of the testis. Environ Toxicol Chem 21:527-531.
12. U.S. EPA. 2003. White Paper on Potential Developmental Effects of Atrazine on Amphibians: In Support of an Interim Reregistration Eligibility Decision on Atrazine. Washington, DC:U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances.