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| Title: | Are You Ready for the “Medi-Soup” |
| Authors: | Bhanumati, S.
Shukla, Shyam S.
Shukla, Alka |
| Issue Date: | Aug-2010 |
| Publisher: | CSIR |
| Abstract: | DO you ever wonder what happens
to the medicines that you take for headaches, ulcers, infections, depression,
and epilepsy? Does the body use all of
the medicine that you take and, if not, where does the unused portion of the
medicine go?
Well, the portion used by the body is metabolized to
something else. Both unused medicines
and their metabolites are excreted to eventually appear together in our water
systems. The unused (surplus or expired)
medicines that we dump also appear in our ecosystem. The water thus becomes a medi-soup. Would you want to drink water that contains
all these medications together? |
| Page(s): | 14-15 |
| Source: | SR Vol.47(08) [August 2010]
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