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Friday, November 14, 2003Bryan Brooks, a toxicologist at Baylor University in Texas, discovered evidence of Prozac, an anti-depressant, in the brains, livers, and muscles of bluegill, caught downstream from the Pecan Creek Water Reclamation Plant in Denton, Texas, near Dallas. Anti-depressants have the same effect on fish that they do on people: they tend to relax them. That's not necessarily a good thing for the fish, though. Don't want to be too relaxed if you're at the bottom of the food chain. The article doesn't mention the concentration of Prozac and other chemicals found in the fish, or whether the fish they tested suffered in any way. It only mentions the studies done in labs, which is not the same thing. They're notorious for using much larger concentrations of substances than are encountered in nature (or in this case, sewage.) The issue deserves a closer look than it's getting from CNN. posted by Sydney on 11/14/2003 01:21:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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