According to an article released by Associated Press  (selected content below) on March 10, 2008, fluoride and other chemicals are not the only contaminants found in drinking water across the U.S.

Pharmaceutical drugs are now being filtered into our drinking water supplies.

 

So what can you do about it?

 

- Major pharmaceuticals - including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers, and sex hormones have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans.

 

- Over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen - in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health.

 

- Drugs have been detected in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas -- from Southern California to Northern New Jersey, from Detroit, Michigan to Louisville, Kentucky.

 

- Officials in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, said testing there discovered 58 pharmaceuticals or byproducts in treated drinking water, including medicines for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems. Sixty-three pharmaceuticals or byproducts were found in the city's watersheds.

 

- Anti-epileptic and anti-anxiety medications were detected in a portion of the treated drinking water for 18.5 million people in Southern California.

 

- Metabolized angina medicine and the mood-stabilizing carbamazepine found in drinking water in Northern New Jersey which serves 850,000 people.

 

- A sex hormone was detected in the drinking water of San Francisco, California.

 

- The drinking water for Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas tested positive for six pharmaceuticals. 

 

- The federal government doesn't require any testing and hasn't set safety limits for drugs in water.

 

- Of the 62 major water providers contacted, the drinking water for only 28 was tested. Among the 34 that haven't: Houston, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; Baltimore, Maryland; Phoenix, Arizona; Boston, Massachusetts; and New York City's Department of Environmental Protection, which delivers water to 9 million people.  

 

- Some providers screen for only one or two pharmaceuticals, leaving open the possibility that others are present.

 

- They found trace concentrations of heart medicine, infection fighters, estrogen, anti-convulsants, a mood stabilizer, and a tranquilizer in New York City's water. 

 

- Officials at municipal or regional water providers told the Associated Press (AP) that pharmaceuticals  had not been detected, but the AP obtained the results of tests conducted by independent researchers that showed otherwise.

 

- Experts say that rural consumers who draw water from their own wells aren't in the clear either, even users of bottled water. Bottlers, some of which is simply repackaged tap water, do not typically treat or test for pharmaceuticals. 

 

- At a conference last summer, Mary Buzby -- director of environmental technology for drug maker Merck & Co. Inc. -- said" "There's no doubt about it, pharmaceuticals are being detected in the  environment and there is genuine concern that these compounds, in the small concentrations that they're at, could be causing impacts to human health or to aquatic organisms.

 

- Recent laboratory research has found that small amounts of medication have affected human embryonic kidney cells, human blood cells and human breast cancer cells. The cancer cells proliferated too quickly; the kidney cells grew too slowly; and the blood cells showed biological activity associated with inflammation.

 

- Pregnant women, the elderly and the very ill might be more sensitive.

 

So what can you do about it?

 

Use Daniel Chapter One's WATERKLEEN™ Fluoride Reduction System! The 50/50 blend of our proprietary media Kalcifate Plus™ and NASA silver impregnated charcoal with catalytic carbon in our cartridges not only safely removes fluoride, but other contaminants as well,  even that of pharmaceutical drugs.