I'm wondering if anyone has ever heard of this one. Story is that when atrazine was originally marketed 50+ years ago, many farmers were still a little uneasy with this chemical stuff. To counter that, the company had their reps do a demonstration where they'd mix a little in a beaker with water and down it in front of the crowd.
This is technically possible because atrazine doesn't have a very high acute toxicity level- the problems that are associated with atrazine (disputed) arre more from long term chronic exposure.
BTW, I once calculated that I've probably received somewhere between 100,000 and 10,000,000 times the lifetime exposure to atrazine that someone living in a city who drank water 3X above the federal limit 30 days a year. Estimates based on dermal versus oral exposure, a SWAG for the fact that in he old glugajug days we weren't nearly as well protected as today, etc.
Which doesn't mean I'm not in favor of keeping atrazine out of water, at all.
Anyway, anybody ever hear that story?
PS. as to the bit about my lifetime exposure, I'm pretty healthy except for a little twitch.
PPS- the takeaway from that calculation is that people who really need to be concerned about exposure to pesticides are farmers and their families and employees. Almost all of the potential health concerns are very highly dose sensitive.
That's why 2 aspirins will cure your headache and do all sorts of other good things to a lesser extent and 50 will kill you.
