Pharmaceuticals in drinking water
Posted: April 3rd, 2008, 10:14 pm
It's seems that pharmaceuticals are in our tap water and there are no regulations about pharmaceuticals in bottled water so that doesn't seem safe and reliable either. I'm not sure if any water purifiers can remove pharmaceuticals.
Basically, an elderly man takes his heart medication and a woman takes birth control pills. Then they pee. Tap water is recycled pee that has small amounts of these medications left in them. We drink it. Yuck! God knows what it's doing to us!
"(AP) -- A vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones -- have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
Officials in Philadelphia say testing there discovered 56 pharmaceuticals or byproducts in treated drinking water.
To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.
But the presence of so many prescription drugs -- and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen -- in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health."
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/10/pharma.water1.ap/
Basically, an elderly man takes his heart medication and a woman takes birth control pills. Then they pee. Tap water is recycled pee that has small amounts of these medications left in them. We drink it. Yuck! God knows what it's doing to us!
"(AP) -- A vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones -- have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.
Officials in Philadelphia say testing there discovered 56 pharmaceuticals or byproducts in treated drinking water.
To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.
But the presence of so many prescription drugs -- and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen -- in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health."
(continued here)
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/10/pharma.water1.ap/