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The Guardian
April 29, 2022
Fish on Drugs: Cocktail of Medications is “contaminating Ocean Food Chain”
Study in Florida finds ‘widespread’ traces of a total of 58 medications including heart drugs, opioids, antidepressants and antifungals in increasingly rare bonefish and their prey.
Tampa Bay Times
February 28, 2022
Prescription Drugs are Contaminating Florida’s Marine Life, Researchers Find
A recent Florida International University study identified 58 different drugs in bonefish from South Florida’s coastal waters. A single fish had 16 drugs in its system.
PNAS
February 14, 2022
Pharmaceutical Pollution of the World’s Rivers
Despite growing evidence of the deleterious effects on ecological and human health, little is known regarding the global occurrence of pharmaceuticals in rivers.