Fish Brains In Great Lakes Region Saturated With Antidepressants
‘Recent findings from researchers of the University at Buffalo discovered concentrations of antidepressants meant for humans in 10 different kinds of fish in the Niagara River. That is the river that links Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
Active ingredients in Zoloft, Prozac and other antidepressants had built up “in the brains of smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, rudd, rock bass, white bass, white perch, walleye, bowfin, steelhead and yellow perch,” reports NY Daily News.
The source of their unwitting druggings?
What else – wastewater!’
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