~ 14.

Another test in bone marrow cells of mice indicated chromosome
breakup, Dr, Shearer reports.

Mold cells, often an indicator of animal cell behaviour,
displayed uneven chromosome division in tests concerning
Atrazene (Primatol A), raising the possibility that this agent
could result in Mongaloidism, fetal death, or sex abnormality
in humans, Dr, Shearer stated.

Dr. Shearer describes Atrazene (Primatol A) as “persistent,
breaks down Slowly, with loss to water, as in rivers draining
agricultural areas,"

Port Coquitlam enviro wildlife biologist,
azene as reak down,” this
“danger sign" affect other growing things
as itoc j sites and still be
effective,"

In the article "How Safe Should Safe Be?" by Arthur Ww. Galston,
Natural History, April 1976, (Attachment U), the author reports:

=

and

razine do not
produce such symtoms, Pr: although
itself innocuous, ransformed by the corn plant
into a substance that can cause genetic aberrations."

Like 2-4D amines and glyphosate, (Round-up), Atrazine can
combine with nitrates, as in fertilizers, to become nitros-
amine, a highly-carcinogenic (cancer-causing) compund,

Dr, Shearer states,

Fertilizer:
afttistizer

1) Feed and Weed (2-4D, mecoprop, and dicamba coating pellets):

Test findings and case histories on 2-4D ana mecoprop can be ;
found earlier in this study under Killex, the third herbicide listed,