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Old 04-16-2008, 09:58 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Kybosh View Post
I would hope that with all this torch waving that someone somewhere along the line actually did some standard tests on the normal drinking water. I wonder exactly how much synthetic estrogen and the like we're getting from the water regardless of the container it was stored in?
Here is a paper about that:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/w622827xjqg6wp85/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0417114749.htm

http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/il...en-pollut.html

Why is everything so quiet when it comes to negative impacts of contraceptives? The UK Environment Agency confirmed the contraceptive pill as a pollutant back in 2002. The Agency warned then that fish stocks in British rivers were showing signs of gender ambiguity as a result of high levels of estrogen in the water. A survey of 1,500 fish at 50 river sites found more than a third of males also displayed female characteristics.

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