Fuck this, you FDA wankers

[F-U-Jimmy]

271 million pound of waste drugs dumped into your drinking water each year and they think this is a gross under estimate ? WTF ? no wonder i never get sick And the FDA don't give a fuck !

"Two common industrial chemicals that are also pharmaceuticals -- the antiseptics phenol and hydrogen peroxide -- account for 92 percent of the 271 million pounds identified as coming from drugmakers and other manufacturers. Both can be toxic and both are considered to be ubiquitous in the environment.

However, the list of 22 includes other troubling releases of chemicals that can be used to make drugs and other products: 8 million pounds of the skin bleaching cream hydroquinone,( Butt Bleach ?) 3 million pounds of nicotine compounds that can be used in quit-smoking patches, 10,000 pounds of the antibiotic tetracycline hydrochloride. Others include treatments for head lice and worms ( nice ).

Residues are often released into the environment when manufacturing equipment is cleaned."

[Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life]

We piss alot of pharms out of our bodies every day. A lot of those chemicals never make their way out of the water before it cycles back around and comes back out of your tap. Most city water supplies will test positive for traces of all varieties of pharmaceutical chemicals and illicit drugs. You don't even need to figure in the drugs that are just dumped.....

[After Shock Media]

It is sick, it is fucked up, and it is shit we are doing to the planet in general. Fuck the amount of medications people dump into the water supply even at a household level are fucking sick and most water cleaning facilities can not clean it out.

I just would not direct your hate at the FDA. There are others that are supposed to be in charge of water and pollution.

[d-null]

the best thing to do is probably get a water distiller

the water tastes better from them anyways

[After Shock Media]

the best thing to do is probably get a water distiller

the water tastes better from them anyways

Yet alas distilled water also does not contain the trace elements and such we need. I also can not stand the taste of distilled water at all - it has no tastes at all, may as well be drinking sterile water.

[d-null]

Yet alas distilled water also does not contain the trace elements and such we need. I also can not stand the taste of distilled water at all - it has no tastes at all, may as well be drinking sterile water.

that's a myth anyways, because you get all those trace minerals and such in your food anyways, and if you are concerned you can always get an electrolyte supplement and a multivitamin

you should try fresh distilled water right out of a distiller, it is not like the plastic bottled stuff, the lack of impure tastes actually makes it "taste" the best of all

[After Shock Media]

you should try fresh distilled water right out of a distiller, it is not like the plastic bottled stuff, the lack of impure tastes actually makes it "taste" the best of all

I have tasted it right out of a distiller and never even bothered to try the plastic bottled stuff that I have only purchased in the past for lotion making.

[d-null]

I have tasted it right out of a distiller and never even bothered to try the plastic bottled stuff that I have only purchased in the past for lotion making.

hmm, I guess it is all individual then, I find distilled to 'taste' the best of all, and it is great for mixing drinks or making tea or coffee with too

[After Shock Media]

hmm, I guess it is all individual then, I find distilled to 'taste' the best of all, and it is great for mixing drinks or making tea or coffee with too

Yes would be individual.
Water quality does indeed effect tea and coffee a great deal and with tea especially I would tell many to filter their water if needed or perhaps even go with distilled if their water is crappy.

Water itself though varies greatly by area and region. I know where I plan to retire to later on in life, the first thing that drew me to the place was the taste of the water.

[D Ghost]

Yeah this BS has been going on for yeeeeears...

Here are some of the key test results obtained by the AP:

Officials in Philadelphia said testing there discovered 56 pharmaceuticals or byproducts in treated drinking water, including medicines for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems. Sixty-three pharmaceuticals or byproducts were found in the city's watersheds.

Anti-epileptic and anti-anxiety medications were detected in a portion of the treated drinking water for 18.5 million people in Southern California.

Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey analyzed a Passaic Valley Water Commission drinking water treatment plant, which serves 850,000 people in Northern New Jersey, and found a metabolized angina medicine and the mood-stabilizing carbamazepine in drinking water.

A sex hormone was detected in San Francisco's drinking water.

The drinking water for Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas tested positive for six pharmaceuticals.

Three medications, including an antibiotic, were found in drinking water supplied to Tucson, Ariz.

The situation is undoubtedly worse than suggested by the positive test results in the major population centers documented by the AP.

The federal government doesn't require any testing and hasn't set safety limits for drugs in water. Of the 62 major water providers contacted, the drinking water for only 28 was tested. Among the 34 that haven't: Houston, Chicago, Miami, Baltimore, Phoenix, Boston and New York City's Department of Environmental Protection, which delivers water to 9 million people.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/...n3920454.shtml

[JD]

doesn't really surprise me honestly