9/23/08
NEW YORK — Pharmaceuticals being flushed by the health services industry are contributing to the problem of trace amounts of drug compounds making their way into drinking water sources, according to an Associated Press (AP) report in the San Francisco Chronicle .
This latest AP report is part of the AP’s pharmaceuticals-in-water investigative series that was [...]
By Susan Wheeler
9/19/2008 4:01:32 PM
WASHINGTON — A new scientific report associates the plastic ingredient bisphenol A (BPA) with an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes and liver-enzyme abnormalities. At the same time, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to affirm the safety of the use of BPA in food packaging, including polycarbonate water [...]
By JEFF DONN, AP
September 18, 2008
WASHINGTON — The federal government’s top water quality official has acknowledged that critics who question whether the existing regulatory mechanism can handle complex chemical compounds found in drinking water supplies are correct to do so, according to a September 18 Associated Press (AP) report.
US Environmental Protection Agency Assistant Administrator for [...]
By MARTHA MENDOZA, AP
September 11, 2008
NEW YORK — Recent tests of drinking water supplies, prompted by an Associated Press (AP) report in March that 41 million Americans receive drinking water tainted by trace levels of pharmaceuticals, reveal that the number of Americans affected by meds-in-water is at least 46 million, according to a September 10 [...]