Prozac found in drinking water ...
Traces of the antidepressant Prozac can be found in UK drinking water.
The BBC reports that:
An Environment Agency report suggests so many people are taking the drug nowadays it is building up in rivers and groundwater.
A report in Sunday's Observer says the government's environment watchdog has discussed the impact for human health.
A spokesman for the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) said the Prozac found was most likely highly diluted.
The newspaper says environmentalists are calling for an urgent investigation into the evidence.
It quotes the Liberal Democrats' environment spokesman, Norman Baker MP, as saying the picture emerging looked like "a case of hidden mass medication upon the unsuspecting public".
He says: "It is alarming that there is no monitoring of levels of Prozac and other pharmacy residues in our drinking water."
Experts say the anti-depression drug gets into the rivers and water system via treated sewage water.
See - Prozac found in drinking water.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 11:00 AM
2 Comments:
Makes you wonder what other residues of drugs are left in this water.
One certain female councillor told me that the worse drugs to get out is the arthritis medication. I thought that would be nothing compared to all the illegal drugs and cancer drugs.
I wonder what our hospitals are going to do to protect patients. I for certain wouldn't be bathing a new born baby in this water.
I can see a lot of expectant mothers travelling to brisbane to deliver.
1:38 PM, December 31, 2005
People are already leaving the city because of this. I know a couple with two children who have moved to the Gold Coast. They think we will lose the fight to stop it so they took the first chance out of here!
It is a very dangerous risk the council is taking and they should stop this stupidity before we see hundreds and maybe thousands moving away.
1:01 PM, January 01, 2006
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