Welcome to AtrazineFacts.com

Since 1959, US farmers have counted on the herbicide atrazine to control weeds in corn, grain sorghum, sugar cane and other crops. It remains a favorite after 50 years because it works better and costs less than most alternatives. Atrazine still stands up to the most stringent safety tests and regulatory standards in the world—those of the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Despite this, Holiday Shores Sanitary District has filed suit against Syngenta and other atrazine manufacturers and distributors in Madison County, Illinois, claiming exposure to atrazine in water at any measurable level could pose a risk to property values and people.

The reality is that atrazine, according to the US EPA, "is one of the most closely examined pesticides in the marketplace" and is strictly regulated in water. After a stringent 11-year review-and the weight of evidence of more than 5,000 studies-EPA recently re-registered atrazine for use in agriculture.

Syngenta has created this web site as a timely and factual resource about atrazine, its history, science, benefits and the current litigation.

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• Judge Crowder should do some weeding
• Another frivolous atrazine class action lawsuit only harms U.S. farmers
• Weight of evidence supports safety and economic benefits of atrazine