http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/pharmawater_factories
AP IMPACT: Tons of released drugs taint US water
By JEFF DONN, MARTHA MENDOZA and JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press
U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water — contamination the federal government has consistently overlooked, according to an Associated Press investigation.
Hundreds of active pharmaceutical ingredients are used in a variety of manufacturing, including drugmaking: For example, lithium is used to make ceramics and treat bipolar disorder; nitroglycerin is a heart drug and also used in explosives; copper shows up in everything from pipes to contraceptives.
Federal and industry officials say they don’t know the extent to which pharmaceuticals are released by U.S. manufacturers because no one tracks them — as drugs. But a close analysis of 20 years of federal records found that, in fact, the government unintentionally keeps data on a few, allowing a glimpse of the pharmaceuticals coming from factories.
As part of its ongoing PharmaWater investigation about trace concentrations of pharmaceuticals in drinking water, AP identified 22 compounds that show up on two lists: the EPA monitors them as industrial chemicals that are released into rivers, lakes and other bodies of water under federal pollution laws, while the Food and Drug Administration classifies them as active pharmaceutical ingredients.
The data don’t show precisely how much of the 271 million pounds comes from drugmakers versus other manufacturers; also, the figure is a massive undercount because of the limited federal government tracking.
To date, drugmakers have dismissed the suggestion that their manufacturing contributes significantly to what’s being found in water. Federal drug and water regulators agree.
But some researchers say the lack of required testing amounts to a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy about whether drugmakers are contributing to water pollution. READ MORE
The PPJ Gazette 
Apr 21, 2009 @ 20:50:15
I know. It seems not many are able to connect the dots, but is it any wonder when they are spoon fed news about their world in five minute sound bites on corporate owned and controlled TV? If the news media was REALLY interested in informing us, they’d present the news in context, instead of reporting it as isolated, discreet events that have nothing to do with each other. Of course, that will happen when pigs start flying around.
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Apr 21, 2009 @ 20:10:42
It s almost like people can’t comprehend that these are not isloated issues or events. When looked at as part of a larger scheme it becomes frightening.
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Apr 21, 2009 @ 17:04:27
How Kuff: It’s about money, yes, but it’s mostly about the elites’ plan for global depopulation. If they can profit from it while slowly killing us off, so much the better for them.
Marti: Yes, isn’t it amazing how mindless the public has become? Just tell them it’s okay because the government said so and everything is fine. Just tell them it’s dispersed in the water, so it’s “only” there in minute quantities, and it’s suddenly okay that they are slowly poisoning us all. Of course, the fluoride alone has already eaten so many microscopic holes through everyone’s brains, it’s a wonder they can think at all, let alone comprehend what is happening and why.
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Apr 21, 2009 @ 16:03:41
I just saw this discussed yesterday on one of the msm channels. Supposedly…….although 271 million pounds was dumped (admitted to) it doesn’t make any difference because it is dispersed in the water and diluted.
I swear the world has gone nuts. Add the drugs to the peticides and herbicides and whatever else gets flushed into our waterways and plus the fluoride and chlorine and other chemicals intentionally added to our water and its a wonder any of us are still alive.
Marti
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Apr 20, 2009 @ 04:05:12
IT’s the MONEY, HONEY.
They are in our water. They are in our rivers, streams and lakes. They are in us.
Why?
Because the industries that use or manufacture these drugs release ‘small’ quantities into the environment. But small quantities all over the place become large quantities.
We are water. Our bodies consist of around 75% water. This water is contaminated. We are contaminated. And it continues…
Why?
Because of money. Because our government and our policies allow this to happen. Because of the money related to the industries that produce and release the contaminants. Because our economic system practically overlooks the ways and means required to get products to market. Because we put off the effects of our money making to future generations. Because we mortgage our future and the future of our children to the profits of today.
We could establish a zero tolerance policy, and only allow industries to continue that do not pollute. But we don’t because the dollar trumps all (except perhaps the euro and yuan — but that is my point). Money trumps all. So we are destined to live as a chemical soup for the profits that go to the wealthy and powerful. For the stockholders that demand their payback on investment. For the corporate elite that benefit from the bottom line.
The bottom line is that we suffer so that money can be made. Because we are all confused and weak enough to not demand a clean environment and a clean life but instead trade dollars for minimum acceptable levels.
http://www.Changing-History.com http://CrimesAgainstWater.blogspot.com
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Apr 20, 2009 @ 03:57:25
“Legally?!” What is legal about deliberately poisoning the U.S. population?!
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