Presence of Agricultural Herbicide Atrazine in Water, Foods, and Human Urine Samples

Anthony Concilla; He Liu

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Presence of Agricultural Herbicide Atrazine in Water, Foods, and Human Urine Samples

Anthony Concilla, He Liu

Published in International Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Analysis (Volume 5, Issue 1)

Received: 6 February 2017 Accepted: 17 February 2017 Published: 4 March 2017

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Abstract

Atrazine is a commonly used water-soluble agricultural herbicide in the United States. In this study, we measured the atrazine levels in water, beverages, foods, and urine samples obtained from young students at an urban university. The effects of physiological and behavioral factors were examined. Our results show that water samples obtained from Lake Erie and tap water both contained very low level of atrazine. Beverages and foods had various levels of atrazine contamination. Atrazine was also detected in the urine samples and mid-term physical activity appeared to be a factor to reduce the atrazine level in these subjects.

Published in	International Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Analysis (Volume 5, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijema.20170501.12
Page(s)	9-13
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2017. Published by Science Publishing Group

Keywords

Atrazine, Water, Food, Urine, Great Lakes, Erie

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Anthony Concilla, He Liu. Presence of Agricultural Herbicide Atrazine in Water, Foods, and Human Urine Samples. Int J Environ Monit Anal. 2017;5(1):9-13. doi: 10.11648/j.ijema.20170501.12

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Anthony Concilla

Department of Biology, Morosky College of Health Professions and Sciences, Gannon University, Erie, USA
He Liu

Department of Biology, Morosky College of Health Professions and Sciences, Gannon University, Erie, USA

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Anthony Concilla; He Liu. Presence of Agricultural Herbicide Atrazine in Water, Foods, and Human Urine Samples. Int. J. Environ. Monit. Anal. 2017, 5(1), 9-13. doi: 10.11648/j.ijema.20170501.12

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Anthony Concilla, He Liu. Presence of Agricultural Herbicide Atrazine in Water, Foods, and Human Urine Samples. Int J Environ Monit Anal. 2017;5(1):9-13. doi: 10.11648/j.ijema.20170501.12

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  title = {Presence of Agricultural Herbicide Atrazine in Water, Foods, and Human Urine Samples},
  journal = {International Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Analysis},
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