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Rocket Fuel, Now Drugs In Water. Give Me A Break
October 29th, 2009 | Author: admin
Rocket fuel has been found in drinking water and if that wasn’t enough to let your hair fall out, we find out that there are now drugs in water.
Antibiotics, sex hormones, chemotherapy drugs are just a few of the pharmaceuticals that a recent study by the Associated Press found in 24 large metropolitan cities across America. We are talking about 40 million people whose water supplies were affected.
New Issue For The EPA
At this point in time, relying on the EPA to protect you from drugs found in drinking water is perhaps not a good idea. There are just trying to come to grips with the matter themselves.
At an American Chemical Society symposium in September 2000, Christian Daughton, chief of chemistry at U.S. EPA’s National Exposure Research Laboratory in Las Vegas, said that the whole issue of pharmaceutical drugs in drinking water is a new for the EPA.
And many other experts concur with this opinion saying that no one knows for sure the effects of these drugs on the body or what amounts of it can be considered safe. Read the rest of this entry »