Pharma Pollution
Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) that are being flushed into the world’s rivers in sewage are now a “global threat to environmental and human health.”
Scientists at the University of York say they tested water from more than 1,000 sites in more than 100 countries and found many of them polluted with such APIs as epilepsy and diabetes drugs and painkillers. The report also warns that the increase in antibiotics found in rivers could also lead to the more “superbugs.” Hot spots were in Pakistan, Bolivia, Kenya and Ethiopia. But Madrid, Dallas and Glasgow, Scotland, were in the top 20% of contaminated cities.
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