Also the contraceptive pill is flooding rivers. Women take it then it gets
flushed into the rivers. It is indestructable.
The Thames River in London was given a pregnancy test and it came out
positive, because they keep taking the drinking water out of the river.
Can't get rid of it.
Nicky
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From: Surfing The Apocalypse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, 7 May 2000 16:10
Subject: [surfingtheapocalypse] Anti-depressants get into water system
Anti-depressants get into water system
Roger Dobson
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/05/07/stinwenws03011.html
AN investigation is to be launched into the environmental effects of
pharmaceuticals amid new fears that tons of anti- depressants and scores
of other toxic drugs are polluting rivers, threatening fish life and
getting into drinking water.
Pharmaceutical companies are being given until the end of the year to
supply data on their drugs to the Environment Agency so their impact can
be researched.
Scientists in Europe have discovered that increasing numbers of complex
drugs - including heart medication, anti-depressants, anti-epileptics,
anti-cancer chemicals, cholesterol-lowering medicines, sex hormones,
antibiotics, hormone replacement, aspirin, vitamins and ibuprofen - are
surviving the human digestive system, passing through sewage works and
entering rivers and the sea.
Dr Thomas Ternes, of Germany's Institute for Water Research, carried out
sampling at one sewage works outfall and found 36 different drugs, plus
five other compounds that had been metabolised from them before they
left the patient.
Scientists are blaming the drug pollution for some of the widespread and
until now unexplained mass deaths of tiny aquatic organisms. Some drugs,
especially anti-depressants, have also been found to alter sperm levels
and spawning patterns in aquatic life. Musks and chemicals used in
perfumes, and compounds from suntan lotion, have been found to have
accumulated in fish.
Each year in Britain about 600m prescription drugs and medicines are
dispensed.
Most of the research on environmental effects on drugs in rivers has
been done in Germany and Denmark; little has been carried out in
Britain.
However, later this month at a world congress of scientists in Brighton,
the Environment Agency will lay down the timetable for an investigation
into the effects of the drugs.
"We have commissioned a review, which is due to be completed within the
next two weeks. There is limited data in Britain about this issue and we
don't routinely monitor," said Dr Steve Killeen, head of chemistry at
the agency.
"The report will make a series of recommendations, including getting the
pharmaceutical industry to provide us with better information by the end
of the year. If we find that levels of drugs are causing environmental
damage, regulations are an option open to us."
Stricter regulations could involve the need for more complex sewage
works to screen out the chemical compounds.
A conference to be held in America next month will also attempt to
quantify the problem for the first time.
"Just about everything people put into their mouth eventually gets into
the water," said Dr Christian Daughton, chief of environmental chemistry
for the US Environmental Protection Agency.
"Serotonin, for example, has been used to induce spawning in molluscs.
Many anti-depressants which are ending up in
rivers are designed to interfere with serotonin production in humans and
may affect spawning," he said.
"Pharmaceuticals are perhaps also one of the reasons for unexplained
mass die-offs in some organisms that we see from time to time."
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