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Eee Alachlor is not threat by KATY AUSTIN A cancer-causing herbicide found at unacceptably high levels in several wells in southern Ontario does not pose a threat to people in the Elmvale area. Neil Embree, from the Ministry of the Environment in Barrie, said Friday that the well serving Elmvale residents will not be among the seven chosen in Simcoe County for testing of alachlor levels this summer. Surveys among farm supply stores are not using the herbicide laboratory rats and mice. Health officials soon recommended a permanent ban on it's use. But Agriculture Canada was reluctant to impose a ban, saying it would be inconvenient and costly to farmers. Last winter, however, the agriculture department put tighter restrictions on the use of alachlor. There is speculation that it may be banned by next spring. The provincial Ministry of the Environment tested 175 wells across southern ton, Simeoe and Prince Edward Counties. Embree explained that alachlor can be removed from the water with activated carbon. In the mean- time, the ministry is supplying or paving for alternate supplies of drinking water for people those wells are affected. In Innisfil Township, the Ministry will probably pay for a new well or cistern for one family. Clint Nesbitt, Agricultual Represen- tative in Elmvale, explained Friday that local farmers use little alachlor partly because they grow less soybeans than farmers further soutn. There are more herbicides to use with corn than soybeans. added _ that Nesbitt another that reason may be with * many farmers today are aware at an early date of the dangers. of modern chemicals and respond quickly to the information. Groups on both sides of the chemical con- troversy are calling on the government to do more research into the potential hazards of herbicides. In Prince Edward County, the Women's __ Institute wants a provincial in- vestigation into what it says is a dramatic in- crea 'e in cancer in the area. Monsanto Canada Ltd., which produces alachlor under the trade name Lasso, believes that its product is safe if used according to directions on the label. Sunday, he agreed with Monsanto. The federal govern- ment has agreed to the company's request for an independent public review of the safety of alachlor. Harold Boker used Lasso as recently as five years ago on his large farming operation near Elmvale. Since then, he has switched to organic methods of farming abandoning the use of all chemical herbicides, pesticides or fertilizers. He has seen in that time a 90 percent decrease in his veterinary bills. "My animals,"' says Boker, "'are telling me extensively. Alachlor, used to kill : weeds in corn and soybean fields, was i shown as early as 1983 to i cause cancer in Ontario this spring and found unsafe levels of the herbicide in three wells in Middlesex County, and in one well in each Essex, Lamb- something about the feed I grow for them."' Local farm supplier, Stan Ritchie, said Georgian College graduate Graduates At the June 15 ee ace name was placed on the College's ceremonies, Suzanne Copeland pean's List. She also was the J ' ' may (Ghiblyr. ay received her diploma, Tourism receipient student of the Seagram's Julie Ann LeClair, ert ie : Management (Marketing, Planning Hospitality Award and of Georgian daughter of Pat and TE AHRALne ia King and Development) after successfully (College's Faculty Association Award Jackie LeClair -- of Cit ir will be completing a three year School of for her distinguished academic Midland, graduated "!'¥. 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