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Are animals grown in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) fed antibiotic drugs that are not common antibiotics for humans?
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Are medicines and beauty aids that we flush down our toilets polluting our waterways?
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Are pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) found in soil where reclaimed wastewater has been used for irrigation?
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Are pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) found in sewage sludge (biosolids) from wastewater treatment plants?
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Are the pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) that are manufactured and used in large quantities the ones most prevalent in the environment?
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Are the tests for environmental effects of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) on aquatic organisms adequate?
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Are there alternatives to incineration for treating and disposing of medical waste?

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Are there published resources on relative effectiveness of various treatment technologies for removing endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) as well as pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) from drinking water?
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Are there states that prohibit the discharge of treated wastewater into water sources that provide drinking water supplies?
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Are traces of hormones or hormone mimicking chemicals finding their way to our waterways and causing mutations in fish?
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Are unused pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) regulated in any way?
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Chicken litter is widely used as a soil amendment and as a source of nutrients for plants. Does this litter contain arsenic?
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Do individual human activities contribute to contamination of the environment with pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs)?

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Do soils in fields that have been amended with animal manure contain more antibiotics and more antibiotic resistant bacteria than those soils that have received no animal manures?
15.-

How are sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics administered in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs)?
16.-

How is the incineration of medical waste regulated?

17.-

How many antibiotic type chemicals have been found in our waterways?
18.-

How many of the chemicals classified as pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) have now been found in water sources in the United States?
19.-

How much arsenic is being added to chicken feed per year in the U.S?
20.-

How much of the arsenic originating as roxarsone in chicken feed is transported to surface or ground water sources where litter is applied as a soil amendment?
21.-

Is there a difference between the group of environmental contaminants referred to as endocrine disruptors and the group referred to as hormonally active agents (HAA)?
22.-

Is there increased human health risk in eating meat from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), where the animals are raised on sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics?
23.-

Just how bad is the situation of water contamination from antibiotics?
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Q. When were synthetic estrogens first reported in wastewater streams in the US?
25.-

Should we be worried about ecological and/or human health effects of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) showing up in our water sources including drinking water at the tap?
26.-

Since we have been using pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) for many years, why have they just recently been labeled as water pollutants?

27.-

What agency(ies) regulate wastes generated at health care facilities?

28.-

What are common uses for phthalates?
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What are phthalates or phthalate chemicals?
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What are the antibiotics most frequently found in U.S. waterways?
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