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Time to get clean [1]

Most nations have strict controls on environmental waste, from arsenic to zinc. Yet no legal limits have been set to control pollution from drugs during their manufacture, use and disposal. That is despite evidence that pharmaceutical waste can wreak havoc in the environment — hormones found in contraceptives cause male fish to grow female sex organs, and a painkiller used in livestock has wiped out millions of vultures in India that fed on the carcasses. (Editorial)

Publication Date: 
08/10/2015
Nature [2]
164
Tags:
Drug Industry [3], Waste Disposal [4], UNEP [5], Wastewater Treatment [6], Europe [7], Water Pollution [8], Global [9]
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