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Re: Prozac in British drinking water!! » Arthur Gibson

Posted by Larry Hoover on August 8, 2004, at 12:28:30

In reply to Prozac in British drinking water!!, posted by Arthur Gibson on August 8, 2004, at 3:04:54

> "Traces of the anti-depressant Prozac can be found in the (British) nation's drinking water, it has been revealed. An Environment Agency report suggests so many people are taking the drug nowadays it is building up in rivers and groundwater."
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3545684.stm
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> - Could this be the answer? Move to the UK to permanantly cure your depression?

The British loony press is really going to town with fear-mongering hyperbole, this time. The only thing special about this finding is that our methods of detection have become so sensitive that part-per-trillion detection is now possible. The simple detail that the Prozac concentration has been described as "trace" means it is at the so-called limit of detection. You can say there's some, but you can't quantify the detection signal.

In order to get anything close to a therapeutic dose of Prozac, one would have to drink about three Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of water, every day. I can't see that happening.

Of far greater concern are other substances in the drinking water, that come out the "other end" of sewage treatment plants. The synthetic estrogen in birth control pills is completely unaffected by the aerobic and anaerobic bacterial degradation in STPs, and has been proven to have feminizing effects on e.g. fish in the rivers of Britain. Just google gender-benders, or xenoestrogens, or testis-ova. The latter is male fish producing ova in their testes, due to exposure to STP effluent.

Ack! Back to <vacation mode>

Lar

 

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