The Unholy Alliance
Part One
By Kathleen Deoul
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Substances found included steroids, human and veterinary drugs natural and synthetic hormones, detergents, plasticizers insecticides and fire retardants. In many instances, wastewater chemicals were mixed in the streams sampled. In half the samples, seven or more chemicals were detected and in one 38 separate chemicals were found.

What is most troubling is that there are no safety standards of health advisories for many of the chemicals the researchers found. Nor is there any understanding of what health effects may result from exposures to combinations of the substances detected.

Moreover, the level of contamination is likely to increase as the volume of chemicals used in agricultural and other applications continues to grow. For example, in California alone, the use of carcinogenic pesticides increased by 127% between 1991 and 1998. In other regions of the country, similar increases have occurred.

But is there really a threat?

The evidence suggests there is.

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