Assessing Exposure to Atrazine and Its Metabolites Using Biomonitoring
- 1 October 2007
- journal article
- Published by Environmental Health Perspectives in Environmental Health Perspectives
- Vol. 115 (10) , 1474-1478
- https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.10141
Abstract
Atrazine (ATZ) is the second most abundantly applied pesticide in the United States. When we assessed exposure to ATZ by measuring its urinary mercapturic acid metabolite, general population data indicated that < 5% of the population was exposed ...Keywords
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