Researchers who examined water samples from over 1,000 locations warn that 'pharmaceutical pollution poses a global threat to environmental and human health.'
Researchers who examined water samples from over 1,000 locations warn that"pharmaceutical pollution poses a global threat to environmental and human health."Underscoring the value of collaboration, experts from around the world on Monday unveiled what they described as the first"truly global study" of pharmaceutical drugs contaminating rivers, which has"deleterious effects on ecological and human health.
The United States was the"most extensively studied" nation, with samples collected at 81 locations along 29 rivers across Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Missouri, Nevada, New York, and Texas. Samples were also taken in every European Union member state except Malta, which the paper explains"was not included due to the country's lack of rivers."
Lead author John Wilkinson of the University of York told Carrington that"the World Health Organization and U.N. and other organizations say antimicrobial resistance is the single greatest threat to humanity—it's a next pandemic." Overall, the most polluted samples came from African and Asian countries, the experts found. The most contaminated samples from Europe, North America, and Oceania were from Madrid, Spain; San Jose, Costa Rica; and Adelaide, Australia, respectively.
"The findings of this study remind us that the medicines we buy in pharmacies can have a big impact on the environment of the countries they are manufactured in," Sobek said.
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