Herbicide Poses No Cancer Risk In Drinking Water

by Angela Logomasini on February 4, 2013 · 0 comments

in Environment, Features, Precaution & Risk

Over the years, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) have repeatedly issued bogus reports claiming that Americans face serious cancer risks from trace chemicals found in drinking water. A new study challenges their claims regarding one of these activists’ key targets: the herbicide atrazine, which farmers use to control weeds rather than tilling the soil.

This study, published in the European Journal of Cancer Prevention, underscores why we need not fear atrazine or listen the green hype. It employed a “weight-of-the-evidence” test for assessing safety of this chemical, which examines the full body of research on a topic and then emphasizes the best quality research to draw conclusions. Such weigh-of-the-evidence tests provide much better information than cherry-picking studies — as the NRDC and EWG usually do — to support predetermined, politically driven positions…….These findings are not surprising since America’s drinking water is not a likely source of cancer risks from atrazine or any other trace chemical.   In their landmark study on the causes of cancer, scientists Richard Doll and Richard Peto noted that “with the possible exception of asbestos in a few water supplies, we know of no established human carcinogen that is ever present in sufficient quantities in large U.S. water supplies to account for any material percentage of the total risk of cancer.”…To Read More….. 

My Take – Issue resolved!  Right?  No, not for the greenies who “KNOW” this can’t be true and will demand more and more studies, will publish more and more lies, will make more and more outrageous claims and the media will publish their claptrap because they are as vile as the greenies.  The author goes on to state that with the possible exception of asbestos in a few water supplies, we know of no established human carcinogen that is ever present in sufficient quantities in large U.S. water supplies to account for any material percentage of the total risk of cancer.”

  Now that is a headline I wish we saw more often.....like once!