Vegetables irrigated with treated wastewater expose consumers to drugs

Posted by on April 18, 2016 4:03 pm
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A new study shows that eating vegetables and fruits grown in soils irrigated with reclaimed wastewater exposes consumers to minute quantities of carbamazepine, an anti-epileptic drug commonly detected in wastewater effluents.

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