Vegetables irrigated with treated wastewater expose consumers to drugs
Monday, April 18, 2016 - 07:40
in Health & Medicine
A new study by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah Medical Center shows that eating vegetables and fruits grown in soils irrigated with reclaimed wastewater exposes consumers to minute quantities of carbamazepine, an anti-epileptic drug commonly detected in wastewater effluents.