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Published online 5 November 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031103-8
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River fish accumulate human drugs
Anti-depressant ingredients found in animals downstream of sewage plant.
A new study adds to evidence that drugs in the waste flowing from sewage-treatment plants is ending up in fish.
Three species living downstream of a water-treatment plant in northern Texas had accumulations of the active compounds in two popular antidepressants in their brains, livers and muscles, says Bryan Brooks of Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
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