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Re: patient excreta
In reply to Ivor Surveyor:
Indeed, trace quantities of blood pressure drugs, birth control drugs,
and other common medications (from excretion of incompletely metabolized
doses) are now ubiquitious in waters downstream of cities (such waters,
of course, are water supplies for other cities). Concerns are being
raised regarding the health effects of long-term exposure to traces of
these compounds.
Regards,
Susan Gawarecki
> Re patient excreta: How about a worry as to general drugs and their
> various metabolites excreted by patients. These will via sewage effluent
> entering waterways etc. ? Surely in volume and toxicity terms a greater
> environmental threat than radiopharmaceutricals.
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Oak Ridge Reservation Local Oversight Committee, Inc.
136 South Illinois Avenue, Suite 208
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830
Phone (423) 483-1333; Fax (423) 482-6572; E-mail loc@icx.net
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