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Pesticides continue to produce unpleasant surprises around the world.
Rain over Europe is laced with atrazine, alochlor and other common agricultural poisons sprayed onto crops. The European Union has set a drinking water standard of 100 nanograms per liter for any individual pesticide. Muller had previously studied samples of rain from 41 storms over Europe and found Atrazine at levels exceeding 100 nanograms per liter in 9 of them. Introduced in 1958, some 68 to 73 million pounds were used in the U.S. in 1995, making it the best-selling pesticide in the nation. Atrazine interferes with the hormone systems of mammals.