Simazine, pesticide, Triazine

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Trade or other names
Use of product
Used to control
Other Info
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Simazine: of the class Triazine,
Chemical name: 6-chloro-N2,N4-diethyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine

Trade or generic names

Alpha Simazine, Aktinit, Batazina, Bitemol, CAT(Herbicide), CDT, Cekuzina-S
Geigy 27,692, Gesatop, Herbazin, Herbex, Hungazin, Premazine, Primatol S,
Printop, Radocon, Tafazine, Zeapur, Aquazine, Caliber, Cekusan, Cekusima, Framed, Princep, Simadex, Simanex, Sim-Trol, Tanzine and Totazine

Crops / products generally treated with this product

artichokes, corn, alfalfa, bermudagrass, berry crops, cherries, peaches, citrus, caneberries, cranberries, grapes, apples, pears, certain nuts, asparagus, grasses for turf also used on farm ponds and fish hatcheries

Used to control

annual grasses, broadleaf weeds, algea in swimming pools and underwater weeds in ponds

Known risks associated with high exposure

weight loss, changes in blood

otherwise considered practically nontoxic

Other information

In water will not bind to sediments or evaporate, persists for months through to years depending on degradation due to microbe activity, temnd not to bioaccumulate in fish

organic white solid, removed from water (for drinking) using granular activated carbon.

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MAUK

EU COMMISSION DECISION March 2004 re Simazine

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Spraying sparks cancer fears
"SIMAZINE and atrazine are closely related chemicals belonging to the triazine group; it is certainly possible that they will have similar effects. ...
Source: dexaminer, Date and Time of entry: 06 February 2008 10:28

Frogs exposed to herbicides don't know if they're Arthur or Martha
The National Health and Medical Research Council has decided to reassess its drinking water guidelines after miniscule traces of the herbicides atrazine and SIMAZINE were found to turn the frogs into hermaphrodites - creatures with male and female sex organs.
Source: smh.com, Date and Time of entry: 27 July 2007 19:57

Monitoring of organonitrogen pesticides in the Ebro river. Preliminary loadings estimates
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC–MS) were applied in the annual monitoring of atrazine in the Ebro river and in the estuary at different salinity values. Alachlor, metolachlor, SIMAZINE and deethylatrazine were determined by GC–MS in the same river basin.
Source: rsc, Date and Time of entry: 23 May 2007 14:37