I blogged about this previously… isn’t it more than a bit disturbing that when you try to stop drinking soft drinks and start drinking water, you’re getting other people’s drugs?
Gross.
One of the things I try to do is drink more water to reduce sugar and caffeine intake, but since most “bottled water” isn’t purified to remove organic compounds, however fancy it could be toxic to you.
Now, I can’t vouch for this blogger’s recommended filter… it may be perfect. But he was a former chemist creating drugs for pharmaceutical companies and now hates them with a passion after what he learned…
Drug giant Merck recently warned that “There’s no doubt about it, pharmaceuticals are being detected in the environment and there is genuine concern that these compounds, in the small concentrations that they’re at, could be causing impacts to human health and aquatic organisms.” To wit, officials in Philadelphia identified 56 pharmaceuticals or by-products in tap water. Such medications included pain meds, cholesterol lowering drugs, birth control pills, antidepressants and blood pressure meds! None of which belong in little Johnny’s “sippy cup.”
Don’t expect your city to be any different. The federal government doesn’t require any testing or safety limits for drugs in tap water. Protect yourself with the right water filter!
danakeith on June 3rd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
yes, tap water were too dangerous if we really dig deeper to it.. coz we never know were it came from, specially these days that our environment were very much polluted.
be aware of it.