Think of Genetically Modified plants - would you add a large amount
of nightshade or hemlock to a river. When and if Monsanto says that
it's plants are an alternative to having chemicals in a river,
do your own thinking and connections.
ThePiedPiper 6May2000
Nicky Molloy wrote:
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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