[boris]

Eventually this will be used to support massive class-action suits against drug makers...plus intrusive regulation of the pharmaceutical industry by the EPA.

The end result (and the desired one) is that drugs will become more expensive, and more humans will suffer.

Luddism marches on!

--Boris

[boris]

Uh, that title word is supposed to be "Humans". I guess one of my prescription drugs made me stutter on the keyboard...

[Grampa Dave]

A simple action by all enviralists would be to never take a single prescription drug, over the counter drug or a vitamin again. They should never get any type of vaccination. They should never drink chlorinated water, pasturized milk nor eat cheese. They should never eat any animal, bird or fish that has been treated with vitamins or drugs.

They should only go to Druid Shamans for hocus pocus medicine. They should only eat the bark off the south side of a tree.

In about 20 years Darwin will have weeded out most of them.

[Minnesoootan]

"We're trying to make an intelligent guess as to what's out there in the environment and what's probably toxic," Venkatraman says. “We certainly don't have any evidence that most pharmaceuticals pose a human health risk, although the presence of carcinogens or teratogens even at low concentrations is of potential human health concern.

Article doesn't pass my junk/reverse science detector program....almost crashed my 'puter when it noted the Federal grant money.

[Carry_Okie]

a gram of pharmaceutical in more than 1 billion liters of water... may pose a problem in the environment???

Now perhaps we might go to the pharmaceutical companies who made these drugs and ask them the minium concentration for efficacy as confirmed by the FDA. If the required dose is some ten million times the concentration detected, then it is proven not to have an effect. Meanwhile, since these people don't have enough to do, they can come to my land and weed for me. I have a big problem with false dandelion this year and need to rake out a couple of thirty yard dirt piles. I hope they don't mind the yellowjackets and poison oak!

[green team 1999]

CDC and Government officials worried about changes!