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The earlier video I refer to in this one is Prozac Residues in
Fish. Researchers havealso found evidence of Prozac levels in
Poultry Products. Despite the contaminants,
tap water is still likely better than bottled.
Prozac in Drinking Water / Prozac in Streams Hurt Frogs fish /
Newborns suffer Withdrawal
Tue, 10 Aug 2004
An article in the UK ObserverStay
calm everyone, theres Prozac in the
drinking water (below) reports that
British environmentalists are calling
for an urgent investigation into the
revelations, describing the build-up of
the antidepressant [Prozac] as hidden
mass medication.
The article was forwarded to me by at
least 12 concerned, knowledgeable
people from the UK and UStheir
concern is justified. The UK
Environment Agency has found that
Prozac is building up both in river
systems and groundwater used for
drinking supplies. This is a direct
result of the inordinately high quantity
of antidepressants consumed and
excreted into the environment.
In 2002, the U.S. Geological Survey tested 139 rivers in 30
states and found that 80 percent of streams sampled by
showed evidence of drugs, hormones, steroids and personal care
products such as soaps and perfumes.
In October, 2003, US scientists reported that Prozac and other
pharmaceuticals were polluting US streams and
affecting the development of fish and other wild life. According
to the National Center for Health Statistics at the
CDC, more than 61 million prescriptions for anti-depressants
were prescribed by U.S. doctors in 2001. As pointed
out, because prescriptions like anti-depressants are for chronic
conditions, patients often take them for months and
years at a time, making them more likely to build up in
wastewater
CNN reported: Researchers are working on several fronts to
determine how big the problem is and just what short-
and long-term ecological effects there might be on wildlife.
Bryan Brooks, a toxicologist at Baylor University inTexas,
discovered evidence of Prozac, an anti-depressant, in the brains,
livers, and muscles of bluegill, caught
downstream from the Pecan Creek Water Reclamation Plant in
Denton, Texas, near Dallas
Marsha Black, an aquatic toxicologist at the University of
Georgia found that low levels of common anti-depressants,
including Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and Celexa, cause development
problems in fish, and metamorphosis delays in frogs.
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When fish swim in waters tainted with antidepressant drugs, they
become anxious, anti-social and
sometimes even homicidal.
New research has found that the pharmaceuticals, which are
frequently showing up in U.S. streams,
can alter genes responsible for building fish brains and
controlling their behavior.
Antidepressants are the most commonly prescribed medications in
the United States; about 250 million
prescriptions are filled every year. And they also are the
highest-documented drugs contaminatingwaterways, which has experts
worried about fish. Traces of the drugs typically get into streams
when
people excrete them, then sewage treatment plants discharge the
effluent.
Exposure to fluoxetine, known by the trade name Prozac, had a
bizarre effect on male fathead
minnows, according to new, unpublished researchby scientists at
the University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee.
Male minnows exposed to a small dose of the drug in laboratories
ignored females. They spent more
time under a tile, so their reproduction decreased and they took
more time capturing prey, according
to Rebecca Klaper, a professor of freshwater sciences who spoke
about her findings at a Society of
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry conference last fall.
Klaper said the doses of Prozac added to
the fishes water were very low concentrations, 1 part per
billion, which is found in some wastewater
discharged into streams.
When the dose was increased, but still at levels found in some
wastewater, females produced fewer eggs
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/pdf-links/SETAC-abstract-book-2012.pdfhttp://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/pdf-links/IHII_Medicines_in_U.S_Report_2011-1.pdf
