From the University of Montreal,
Drugs are making their way into the waters around Montreal, and now even fish are getting drugs like Prozac.
The findings that antidepressants are in the waterways surrounding a major city might seem minor, but the scientists say if it’s happening in Montreal, it’s likely happening in most major cities – and that could mean trouble for humans and wildlife and the fish they eat.
So far, the fish aren’t showing signs of toxicity and according to Dr. Sébastien Sauvé at the University of Montreal’s Department of Chemistry, “The amount of anti-depressants being released into our river works out to roughly the equivalent of a grain of salt in an Olympic-size swimming pool”, posing no immediate danger to humans.
What the study did show is that drugs like Prozac are accumulating in the tissue of the fish and affecting brain activity, the consequences of which are unclear.
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