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Professionals across multiple fields met in London last week to discuss how pharmaceuticals that have been dumped into the world’s waterways might affect both the environment and human health. The conference, organized by the Epidemiology & Public Health Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and the University of Verona, addressed the emerging global issue of “ecopharmacovigilance” and discussed how experts around the world can monitor the effects of long-term exposure and bioaccumulation of drugs that have made their way into drinking water.
In a report published last July, the World Health Organization (WHO) encouraged researchers to look into the matter, but stated that current research suggests "trace quantities of pharmaceuticals in drinking water are very unlikely to pose risks to human health," adding that ...
