Wisconsin DNR Pharmaceutical Waste News
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Contents:
1. Prescription drugs found in Lake Michigan
2. Proctor and Gamble halts use of 2 chemicals in personal care products
3. World Health Organization warns about exposure to chemotherapy agents
1. Prescription drugs found in Lake Michigan
Prescription drugs are contaminating Lake Michigan two miles from Milwaukee’s sewage outfalls, suggesting that the lake is not diluting the compounds as most scientists expected, according to new research. Read more at:
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/drugs-in-lake-michigan
Source: Environmental Health News
2. Proctor and Gamble halts use of 2 chemicals in personal care products
Procter & Gamble is phasing out the use of two chemicals (phthalates and triclosan) by 2014 from its beauty and personal care products. Find out more at:
Source: Cincinnati.com
3. World Health Organization warns about exposure to chemotherapy agents
WHO, in its August 2013 edition of Safe Management of Wastes from Health-care Activities, asserts that contact with urine, feces and vomit of chemotherapy patients poses a potentially "disastrous" public health risk. More information is at:
http://www.pharma-cycle.com/
The report is available at:
Source: Pharma-cycle.com