Pharmaceuticals in rivers threaten world health - study

Pharmaceuticals in rivers threaten world health - study Pollution of the world's rivers from medicines and pharmaceutical products poses a "threat to environmental and global health", a report says.

Paracetamol, nicotine, caffeine and epilepsy and diabetes drugs were widely detected in a University of York study.

The research is among the most extensive undertaken on a global scale. BBC News

See also: 

• Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers (open access) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences