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into public waterways, or do they?
Swiss scientist [Hans-Rudolf Buser and Markus D. Miller] found clofibric
acid in waterways flowing through densely populated areas.
Clofibric acid
is a cholesterol-lowering drug. Concentrations were from
1 to 100
nanograms per liter. The also found a toxic pesticide ingredient, lindane,
in about the same concentration. Clofibric acid is not manufactured in
Switzerland so it could not have come from industrial spill off, but from
somewhere else; most likely, human waste.
In some cases, from 50 to 90% of a pharmaceutical drug is excreted from the
body in its original biologically active form.
Several years ago, environmental chemists [Thomas Heberer and Hans-Jorgen
Stan at the Technical U. of Berlin] found the same results
at
a German sewage treatment farm, and also found clofibric acid in local
waterways in concentrations of up to 4 parts per billion (ppb).
Clofibric acid was easy to find because they were looking for pesticides;
but further research has found other drugs, those for regulating lipids in
blood (phenazone and fenofibrate), and analgesics (ibuprofen and
diclofenac). Many of these aquifiers serve as sources for drinking water.
Subsequently, other researchers have found drugs from chemotherapy,
antibiotics, hormones, antiseptics, and beta-blocker heart drugs. They
have also detected residues of drugs to control epilepsy and ones that
serve as contrast agents for diagnostic X rays, etc.
Additionally, mercury buildups occur with frequency in waterways,
and
information is available which indicate the risks from hormone-mimicking
pollutants.
The conclusions can be made that these pollutants pose health risks and
can substantially alter aquatic ecosystems -- and if you drink enough
antibiotics, they can also reduce your resistance to their use when you really
need them; besides the toxic results of exposure to our own fragile human
biological system, these chemicals may cause irreparable damage to DNA.
More and more people are taking drugs and up to 90% of those drugs
are lost in urine and feces. They go somewhere and obviously, methods used
for treatment of waste does NOT eliminate them from the environnment.
While some drugs are found in low concentrations, accumulatively they may
pose severe health risks. Not enough studies have been done to
determine what that risk may be. Modern medicine brings with it many
hazards for which we have not been adequately protected. Why? Profits... It
costs money to clean up the environment. It costs money to protect us.
Better to make us sick and then treat us with profit-generating drugs that
in turn may cause more harm. We don't share the wealth; we share bad
health.
This is reprinted by Life Streams International with permission...
I have been aware of this for some time. I like to find other people's work
that needs to be publicized. Thanks, Golem.
From James Fairgrieve, CEO
of Life Streams International Mfg. Co.
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