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      World's Rivers Awash in Pharmaceuticals, Historic Study Reveals

      Researchers who examined water samples from over 1,000 locations warn that "pharmaceutical pollution poses a global threat to environmental and human health."

      Jessica Corbett
      Feb 14, 2022

      Underscoring the value of collaboration, experts from around the world on Monday unveiled what they described as the first "truly global study" of pharmaceutical drugs contaminating rivers, which has "deleterious effects on ecological and human health."

      "I hope the study will lead to projects that support and expand sewage treatment where it is needed the most."

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      Lawsuit Challenges EPA Approval of the Use of Medically Important Antibiotic as a Pesticide on Citrus Crops

      Streptomycin Use Allowed on More Than 650,000 Acres in Florida, California

      Newswire Editor
      Mar 25, 2021

      A coalition of public interest groups, including farmworker, health justice and conservation organizations, sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today for approving widespread spraying of streptomycin, a medically important antibiotic, on citrus trees to prevent or treat citrus greening disease or citrus canker. The practice of spraying antibiotics on trees has proven highly ineffective in combating these diseases, and it can drive antibiotic resistance in bacteria that threaten human health.

      The EPA failed to ensure that the approved uses of streptomycin as a pesticide would not cause unreasonable harm to human health or the environment and failed to adequately assess impacts to endangered species, according to the lawsuit.

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      Coalition Calls for Urgent Action On Livestock Antibiotic Overuse

      Newswire Editor
      Jan 25, 2021

      The Antibiotics Off The Menu (AOTM) coalition has released a statement calling for the Biden Administration to address the ongoing global threat of antibiotic resistance at the federal level, and for the restaurant industry to continue taking action to limit the use of medically important antibiotics on livestock. Through AOTM, Center for Food Safety works in coalition with other public interest, animal welfare, and environmental groups seeking to preserve the effectiveness of antibiotics in treating sick people and sick animals.

      Jaydee Hanson, policy director at Center for Food Safety, released the following statement:

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