Determination of atrazine and degradation products in Luxembourgish drinking water: origin and fate of potential endocrine disrupting pesticides

International audience ; Several pesticides have been hypothesized to act as endocrine disrupting compounds, exhibiting hormonal activity and perturbing normal physiological functions. Among these, especially s-triazine-herbicides have received increased attention. Atrazine is, despite being banned in many countries, including the EU (2004), still the world's most widely used herbicide. Despite its discontinued use, considerable concentrations of atrazine and its degradation products, mainly desethylatrazine (DEA) and deisopropylatrazine (DIA), are still found in the environment, including dri... Mehr ...