Roundup Ready Corn

Hammond, B., Dudek, R., Lemen, J., Nemeth, M. Results of a 13 week safety assurance study with rats fed Roundup Ready corn grain. Food Chem, Tox. 2004 (in press). 

The class of urea herbicides is widely being eliminated in Europe, but, more distinctively, the important class of triazine herbicides is disappearing from the EU herbicide market. None of their some ten representatives in Europe where sales can be recorded have made it into Annex 1, except terbutylazine, which is still pending for the time being. The traditionally most important triazine representatives, atrazine and simazine, have not passed the EU Review Program and will have to be replaced by new chemistry in the EU, while both substances, particularly atrazine, still represent a significant importance in the US market, e.g., atrazine sales in the US accounted for some 165 Mio Euro in 2004, since this compound is widely and efficiently used in the US corn market, also in combination with Roundup-Ready. 

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