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Drugs in Our Water Supply
drugs in our water supply
Pharmaceutical drugs are excreted.
They are in our water supply.
What water systems filtration systems
can get them out? I do not know yet.
Date: 6/30/2009 9:38:23 AM ( 15 y ) ... viewed 1199 times
June 30, 09
7:37 AM
Drugs in our water supply
This is something I have been thinking about for
a long time.
http://www.healthfreedomrights.com/wst_page9.html
Hello Everyone,
I've been trying to find the best way to present this information. What I've found over the years, is that keeping it simple works best.
So, here it is!
Looking at the water contamination situation triggers a different response in me, because I am a Homeopathic Physician.
1. What we have with residual drug trace amounts in water is a constant, low dose exposure/treatment for the population.
2. This was first reported at least 20 years ago.
3. This is exposure for more than one generation. (continuous exposure to toxins will result in mutation/change)
4. We are constantly being dosed/drugged with these trace amounts of pharmaceuticals.
5. Even if you drink bottled water, livestock and poultry are raised with water. How many are given high quality R/O (Reverse Osmosis) or high quality, multi-stage filtration system water?
6. Crops are watered. How many use high quality R/O or high quality, multi stage filtration system water?
7. When you shower, your pores are open and toxins can be absorbed, as well as vapor inhalation in the lungs. The skin is the largest organ of the body.
http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc98/3_21_98/bob1.htm
Though modeling provided a useful surrogate for water monitoring when laboratory analyses were too crude to detect low drug concentrations in the environment, chemists today routinely detect parts per trillion (ppt) of many waterborne pollutants.
When asked whether FDA requires any monitoring of water supplies to see whether concentrations in the real world match the predictions of drug manufacturers' models, Kearns said no.
If they had, many German chemists now believe, regulators might have received a rude awakening -- as Thomas A. Ternes did.
A chemist with the municipal water research laboratory in Wiesbaden, Ternes realized that tons of medicines are prescribed each year in Germany, "but nobody knows what happens to those compounds after they are excreted." So a few years ago he launched a water-monitoring project to look for drugs in sewage, treated water, and rivers.
He expected to find a few medicinal compounds. Instead, he detected 30 of the 60 common pharmaceuticals for which he tested. These included lipid-lowering drugs, antibiotics, analgesics, antiseptics, and beta-blocker heart drugs. He has even found residues of drugs to control epilepsy and ones that serve as contrast agents for diagnostic X rays. A report of his findings will appear later this year in Water Research.
Ternes detected parts-per-billion concentrations of these drugs in both raw sewage and the water leaving treatment plants. "We also found these compounds in nearly all streams and rivers in Germany," he says. Though concentrations in streams usually fall in the parts-per-trillion range, he notes that for some compounds "you can have maximum concentrations of up to 3 [ppb]."
The highest concentrations tended to show up in the smallest rivers, where 50 percent of the water could be sewage treatment effluent. Residues of up to 10 different drugs have been found in such water at concentrations totaling 6 ppb.
Ternes notes that finding these drugs "is very hard work." For instance, chemists usually identify a compound by comparing it against a standard sample of that compound. These standards often are not available for sale, he finds.
Adding to the problem, Heberer observes, is that almost all excreted drugs dissolve easily in water. Because conventional methods of separation take advantage of differences in the effectiveness of several solvents, it is difficult to segregate the drugs for analysis. That's a problem Shane Snyder at Michigan State University in East Lansing has been wrestling with in his study of estrogens in sewage effluent.
While analyzing Las Vegas wastewater flowing into Lake Mead, Snyder found that "all of the estrogenicity was coming out of the very water-soluble fraction." To isolate the chemicals responsible, he had to repeat the separation procedure 30 times or more. Though estradiol, the primary natural female sex hormone, appears to be the major estrogenic compound in this water, there is evidence that a synthetic hormone in birth control pills may also be a contributor. Further investigation of that possibility is now under way.
7:48 AM
I first got a clue into the dangers of low dosage
while watching ADDICTED TO PLASTIC.
Take a look at that film.
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