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http://news.yahoo.com/salmon-full-cocaine-antidepressants-study-140100123.htmlIt may be time to sit down with your salmon and have a talk about drug abuse.
Researchers found cocaine, Advil, Prozac, Lipitor, Benadryl and dozens of other drugs in the tissue of juvenile chinook salmon caught in the Puget Sound in September 2014, the Seattle Times reported in February. The salmon likely picked up the drugs from wastewater in the area that's a "[cocktail] of 81 drugs," as the Seattle Times put it.
Other drugs found in the wastewater include (but aren't limited to): Aleve, Flonase, Paxil, Tylenol, Tagamet, Valium, Zoloft, Darvon, OxyContin, caffeine, nicotine fungicides, antiseptics, anticoagulants, Cipro and other "antibiotics galore," the Seattle Times reported.
Sounds like one hell of a ride for the salmon.
"The concentrations in effluent [sewage water] were higher than we expected," Jim Meador, an environmental toxicologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a lead author of the study of the contaminants found in the Puget, told the Seattle Times. "We analyzed samples for 150 compounds and we had 61% of them detected in effluent. So we know these are going into the estuaries."
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)First the salmon, next the whales. Where will it end?
Oneironaut
(5,538 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)🖍 and I just discovered they work in the body as well. I thought it was only the headline. 🚫
kwassa
(23,340 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)Those fins HURT!
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)We are getting better and better at detecting small amounts of almost anything!
Now, what to do with that information?
Let people know that we can detect things at very small amounts that will not affect them unless they eat tons of the fish in a single sitting, or go out and try to scare the crap out of people for no good reason?
I think we know what usually happens.
postulater
(5,075 posts)Antibiotic resistant bacteria found in the Milwaukee harbor.
http://m.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/milwaukee-harbor-a-hot-spot-for-bacteria-resistant-to-antibiotics-b99643194z1-364033921.html
"Tests found that drug resistance in the bacteria was most prevalent for widely used antibiotics, including erythromycin, sulfamethoxazole, aztreonam and ampicillin.
Exposure to the lurking bacteria through swimming, wading or other activities could become another way that residential and agricultural overuse of soaps, detergents, drugs and other products containing antibacterial compounds will come back to bite the public, Hristova said.
When resistant bacteria from the environment contact skin or enter a person's body, they can transfer genes enabling antibiotic resistance to bacteria residing in mucus or in intestines, according to Hristova."
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)And science detection.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)have joint pain, nor do they high blood pressure or erectile dysfunction.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Clearly the DEA needs to be informed about the unseedy activities of Salmon. Get it off the streets early.
Just say no to fish!
peacefreak
(2,939 posts)The salmon also had an infinity for disco music.
oioioi
(1,127 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)geomon666
(7,512 posts)Can they bottle this stuff?
WhiteTara
(29,729 posts)sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)writing "the Puget Sound," It is "Puget Sound." It is very uncommon to preface the names of sounds with articles. This "the Puget Sound" illiteracy began when undereducated local network news celebrities began moving up from California to work at local television stations. It's gone from being a joke among those of us born and raised there, to a source of serious annoyance. Enough, goddammit!
Rex
(65,616 posts)Confusing as hell.
Ilsa
(61,709 posts)WhiteTara
(29,729 posts)but thanks for the heads up on the.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Of course it is just a matter of time before the DEA outlaws salmon.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)This is so stupid.
0rganism
(23,978 posts)iirc, under the "look alike" law, anything that acts like an illegal drug is just as illegal to sell or possess...