Chemical hazards in drinking-water: Atrazine
Atrazine is included in the plan of work of the rolling revision of the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality.
The revised background document and summary statement for the 4th edition are now available.
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Download background document
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Download summary statement [Chapter 12, pp.319-320]
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Annex 2 [Chapter 12, pp.455-467]
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Download history of guideline
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The Guidelines for drinking water quality also consider for individual chemicals:
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Aspects of analytical achievability [Annex 4, pp. 476-484]
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Technical performance [Annex 5, pp 485-503]
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Other publications of interest
- Chemical safety of drinking-water: Assessing priorities for risk management
- Protecting groundwater for health: managing the quality of drinking-water sources
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Pesticide residues in food—2007
FAO/WHO (2009) Atrazine. In: Pesticide residues in food2—2007 evaluations. Part II. Toxicological. Geneva, World Health Organization