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Drugs and plastics threatening ocean and human health

Source
Cosmos

Publication Date
2018-02-14

In a series of presentations at the recent 2018 Ocean Science Meeting organised by the American Geophysical Union in Portland, Oregon, US scientists report that everything from Prozac to plastic microbeads and antibiotics are finding their way into the ocean at levels sufficient to cause harm. Most of the risk is to marine animals, but there may also be dangers to marine food webs on which we ourselves depend.

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https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/drugs-and-plastics-threatening-ocean-and-human-health