Crops that take up drugs from recycled water

   


     In a new study, researchers irrigated eight vegetables crops with treated waste water that carried 19 drugs and chemicals. Such as antimicrobial triclosan, cholesterol drugs such as gemfibrozil, the anticonvulsant drugs carbamazepine and caffeine. All of these are commonly found in waste water and are very difficult to filter out. Eight of the chemicals made it into edible portions of the crops.
     Irrigating crops with recycled water can leave them with laced with small amounts of drugs and personal care chemicals. Researchers disagree on whether the contaminated produce is likely to harm people.

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