ApocaDocs: Only half of drugs, other newly emerging contaminants removed from sewage

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Posted Fri Nov 29 2013: from Environmental Health News:


	Only half of drugs, other newly emerging contaminants removed from sewage http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1385737234 ...More than 1,400 wastewater treatment plants in the United States and Canada discharge 4.8 billion gallons of treated effluent into the Great Lakes basin every day, according to the study. The scientists reviewed 10 years of data from wastewater treatment plants worldwide to see how well they removed 42 compounds that are increasingly showing up in the Great Lakes. Six chemicals were detected frequently and had a low rate of removal in treated effluent: an herbicide, an anti-seizure drug, two antibiotic drugs, an antibacterial drug and an anti-inflammatory drug. Caffeine, acetaminophen and estriol (a natural estrogen) also were frequently detected in sewage but had high removal rates.

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