Fish on Prozac
Over the past few years, ecologists
surveying the waters around waste treatment plants have found
contraceptives, synthetic musks, ibuprofen, and other compounds flushed
off or out of our bodies and into the environment via municipal
effluent. A recent study in Tromsø, in northern Norway, for example,
found extremely elevated levels of caffeine in the seawater of the
Tromsø Sound. Now the compounds are turning up in animals as well—with
unknown consequences.
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